But they won't buy cable to watch Hulu. Not a chance. They'll take their business elsewhere.
Not bloody likely, at least, not 'legally'. If the rightsholders refuse to 'license' their stuff, any competitor will have to violate US copyright law. We all see how well that worked out for Megaupload, now, didn't we?
Heh. I must be doing something wrong. My sound works great.
Dunno why the update to 12.04 readded pulseaudio after I specifically terminated it with extreme prejudice, but it did. Doesn't seem to be affecting me at all. Cool.
I stream some mp3s to some friends now & then using idjc. It still works. And I watch a LOT of video using mplayer, vlc when I wanna watch a DVD. Works fine. All I can say is, YMDV.
Linux is just not capable on the desktop and certainly not at work.
Wish you would have told me that when RedHat 3.0.3 came out, cause that's when I went to Linux. And now that I work at home, I use Linux on the desktop for work as well.
Strangely Windows has never broken on me during an upgrade. That could be because my last Windows was XP. Ubuntu usually breaks my nVidia graphics and sound. Usually easy to fix - kinda like reinstalling a driver to get a broken Windows working.
I just updated my Ubuntu yesterday from 11.10 to 12.04. It went smoothly except for not creating the driver needed for VirtualBox. I tried a reinstall and found out that the upgrade didn't install the proper kernel headers (kernel-headers-generic-pae, IIRC). Installed those, reinstalled VirtualBox, now it works. And it was a show-stopper for me. I work at home, and I need an app that runs under XP just fine, but seems to hate Linux. Weird, cause the app is a Java program...
There's a learning curve with anything, even Windows.
I'm having an issue with this one Java program that's supposed to be cross platform. It can only run on my XP that I'm running in VirtualBox. Pisses me off, cause the company that puts it out says it works on PCs & Macs, & some people have made it work on Linux, but they don't bother to hit the support forums much.
Even Warren Buffet claims all the deductions and tax breaks he can, all while pointing out that he could and should pay more.
That I don't have a problem with. What I have a problem with is a corporation having their main office somewhere that all the suits go to, but have their 'headquarters' in a post office box in some state or country that has significantly lower tax rates so they don't have to pay the higher taxes at their main office.
Certainly its logical to minimize your tax liability. But its interesting to me that Apple only paid 9.8 percent. We individuals pat at least twice that, and closer to 30%. The country is by and for corporations, I can't see that there's much one can argue against that. The constitution is dead, a more current one should probably read like a EULA.
But you as an individual most likely aren't taxed by multiple countries. Say a company operates in 4 countries. Now image if every country claimed 30% on the total net profit. That would make the company owe 120% in taxes. That's obviously absurd and unsustainable so you need to only tax on the income earned in that country. So 9.8% is a meaningless comparison to your 30% tax rate since the 9.8% is averaged all over the world. You need to compare your tax rate to the tax rate Apple pays in the United States. After all most of Apple's growth isn't in the United States it coming from China.
Strawman, strawman, burning bright...
I as an individual earn 'revenue' in one place because I only 'do business' in one place. Multinationals earn revenue in multiple places. The profits on that revenue are taxed in those places as a percentage of the revenue. If you have revenue of 20% in Great Britain, for instance, the Brits only tax that 20%. Your statement implies the corporations get taxed everywhere for their full revenue/earnings/gains. They don't. And the way the laws are, a corporation can have its main offices in one country where all business is conducted, but be 'headquartered' in a post office box in a country where the tax rates are significantly lowered.
Fusion has historically been underfunded. The only way to get any real funding for fusion research is from the DoD, once you convince them that a fusion-powered missile submarine is a Good Thing in that all they have to do is push a hose into the water to refuel. No, it won't work that way, but those armchair admirals are easily snowed.
Healthcare is a for-profit industry in the US. Hospitals these days are run by beancounters who consider them 'profit centers' rather than 'centers for health'. If the US wants to fix an unfixable system, they need to talk to the Brits, the Swedes, the Finns, and so forth. Doubt it'll happen here in the Land of the Fee.
but this is supposed to be about fusion. The funding is there for now, because it's trendy. And it's at the expense of other projects. And fusion will still be 20 years away. Expect this funding to go away after the election because you can't legislate breakthroughs onto a schedule.
Natural selection IS evolution in action. That was Darwin's whole point, that species will adapt to an environment, and those that adapt the best will overwhelm those that can't.
The discovery that the bacteria inside insects' guts finds human-made (often very toxic) insecticide "tasty" can actually be a good news for all of us ---
We can tap the ability of those bacteria to "digest" away many of the toxic waste produced by industries
Depends on what the 'waste' the bacteria is spitting out, I'd think. It'd suck if the bacteria took in pesticide and spit out, say, cyanide or nerve gas...
And it ushered in a new, pardon the pun, Golden Age in Britain at the same time, by supporting people while they learned valuable arts and sciences, IIRC. It's been a few decades since I read that one.
Tunguska was a comet exploding 3-6 miles above the earth, according to current theory. The force was equivilent to a 10-15 megaton airburst. Comets move fast, from 25-70 km/sec, a lot faster than orbital speed. The object that blew up over the weekend over California was estimated to be a 500 ton meteor, about the size of the projected retrieval payload, coming in above escape velocity, and airburst with the equivilence of about 3.8 kilotons, no damage reported, not even the chickens getting woke up early or the cows' milk souring. Tunguska was 5 orders of magnitude larger in energy, meaning it was a BIG sucker astronomically speaking, and icey. Maybe 150, 200 meters across.
Besides, as a physicist, you'd know that an Orion launcher would only contaminate a reasonably small area, not the entire planet. Personally, I'd love to get away from the 'Only One Earth So STAY Here' crowd myself. SHOTGUN!!
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I've found the toughest part of being a video pirate is getting all that parrot shit off my shirts.
FTFY.
Not bloody likely, at least, not 'legally'. If the rightsholders refuse to 'license' their stuff, any competitor will have to violate US copyright law. We all see how well that worked out for Megaupload, now, didn't we?
Best hurry up. They're trying to make bittorrent illegal because it's used to pirate media, all in the name of turning the internet into Cable TV 2.0.
Heh. I must be doing something wrong. My sound works great.
Dunno why the update to 12.04 readded pulseaudio after I specifically terminated it with extreme prejudice, but it did. Doesn't seem to be affecting me at all. Cool.
I stream some mp3s to some friends now & then using idjc. It still works. And I watch a LOT of video using mplayer, vlc when I wanna watch a DVD. Works fine. All I can say is, YMDV.
I do when the program isn't in any repo. God bless checkinstall!!
Wish you would have told me that when RedHat 3.0.3 came out, cause that's when I went to Linux. And now that I work at home, I use Linux on the desktop for work as well.
I just updated my Ubuntu yesterday from 11.10 to 12.04. It went smoothly except for not creating the driver needed for VirtualBox. I tried a reinstall and found out that the upgrade didn't install the proper kernel headers (kernel-headers-generic-pae, IIRC). Installed those, reinstalled VirtualBox, now it works. And it was a show-stopper for me. I work at home, and I need an app that runs under XP just fine, but seems to hate Linux. Weird, cause the app is a Java program...
Especially when they change things in the OS to force software updates in 3rd party applications.
There's a learning curve with anything, even Windows.
I'm having an issue with this one Java program that's supposed to be cross platform. It can only run on my XP that I'm running in VirtualBox. Pisses me off, cause the company that puts it out says it works on PCs & Macs, & some people have made it work on Linux, but they don't bother to hit the support forums much.
That I don't have a problem with. What I have a problem with is a corporation having their main office somewhere that all the suits go to, but have their 'headquarters' in a post office box in some state or country that has significantly lower tax rates so they don't have to pay the higher taxes at their main office.
Oh, you mean Congress. I get it.
Carry on.
Apple gets a tax break on those discount cards disguised as 'advertising expenses', just another 'cost of doing business'.
Strawman, strawman, burning bright...
I as an individual earn 'revenue' in one place because I only 'do business' in one place. Multinationals earn revenue in multiple places. The profits on that revenue are taxed in those places as a percentage of the revenue. If you have revenue of 20% in Great Britain, for instance, the Brits only tax that 20%. Your statement implies the corporations get taxed everywhere for their full revenue/earnings/gains. They don't. And the way the laws are, a corporation can have its main offices in one country where all business is conducted, but be 'headquartered' in a post office box in a country where the tax rates are significantly lowered.
Fusion has historically been underfunded. The only way to get any real funding for fusion research is from the DoD, once you convince them that a fusion-powered missile submarine is a Good Thing in that all they have to do is push a hose into the water to refuel. No, it won't work that way, but those armchair admirals are easily snowed.
Healthcare is a for-profit industry in the US. Hospitals these days are run by beancounters who consider them 'profit centers' rather than 'centers for health'. If the US wants to fix an unfixable system, they need to talk to the Brits, the Swedes, the Finns, and so forth. Doubt it'll happen here in the Land of the Fee.
but this is supposed to be about fusion. The funding is there for now, because it's trendy. And it's at the expense of other projects. And fusion will still be 20 years away. Expect this funding to go away after the election because you can't legislate breakthroughs onto a schedule.
Definitely gotta be a first, eh?
Yeah, it's the end of the world as we know it & I feel...
... mildly amused.
Natural selection IS evolution in action. That was Darwin's whole point, that species will adapt to an environment, and those that adapt the best will overwhelm those that can't.
Depends on what the 'waste' the bacteria is spitting out, I'd think. It'd suck if the bacteria took in pesticide and spit out, say, cyanide or nerve gas...
I'm thinking, is wizard time to eliminate Warden, tovarisch.
Lemme give Mike a call...
So does drinking water from a mountain stream or a lake. As if any water found in space won't be purified before drinking it...
Once upon a time, petroleum was this nasty substance that interfered with the creation of asphalt that nobody could figure a way to make it useful.
And it ushered in a new, pardon the pun, Golden Age in Britain at the same time, by supporting people while they learned valuable arts and sciences, IIRC. It's been a few decades since I read that one.
Tunguska was a comet exploding 3-6 miles above the earth, according to current theory. The force was equivilent to a 10-15 megaton airburst. Comets move fast, from 25-70 km/sec, a lot faster than orbital speed. The object that blew up over the weekend over California was estimated to be a 500 ton meteor, about the size of the projected retrieval payload, coming in above escape velocity, and airburst with the equivilence of about 3.8 kilotons, no damage reported, not even the chickens getting woke up early or the cows' milk souring. Tunguska was 5 orders of magnitude larger in energy, meaning it was a BIG sucker astronomically speaking, and icey. Maybe 150, 200 meters across.
Who, me, or the GP?
Besides, as a physicist, you'd know that an Orion launcher would only contaminate a reasonably small area, not the entire planet. Personally, I'd love to get away from the 'Only One Earth So STAY Here' crowd myself. SHOTGUN!!