I am sorry but total government taxation is more than just income tax. I know it's a shock to some people, but state and local governments frequently operate with zero income tax and yet they still get money. The federal government has a wide range of taxes and many of these tend to collect less as a % from people as they move up the income ladder. Or like SS they just stop asking for more money after you make X.
FYI: Income tax is not the only tax people pay. Social Security, Medicare, Property tax, sales tax, DMV etc.
Add them up and the average 40k/year homeowners a higher percentage of their income in taxes than Gill Gates.
PS: I know people hate income tax which is why we have all those hidden taxes but it's all just money and when the government spends it they take it from somewhere.
44% of all health care in the US is paid for by Federal, State, or Local tax dollars. Yet, I don't hear people complaining they want to cut back on medicare funding. Either government should get out of the heath care business or we should cover everyone trying to straddle the line just makes for more waste.
PS: We are spending 260billion a year on national debt interest and John McCain want's to just pile on more debt. When you look at total government taxation those who are most able to pay handover less than a family of four living off of 40k / year. But hey let's give the rich an even bigger tax break because it's hard to have a lot of money but having more will help them out.
It's a classic linear programming problem. A machine with the same basic facts as a person would come to basically the same solution.
In the US there are limits on what can be broadcast in what time slots. Add in basic ratting information and I would be surprised in most stations built the schedules totally by hand.
If your happy that's great, but there are plenty of developers making over 200k / year. To put things into perspective a friend of mine without a collage degree who does system admin / scripting broke 140k/year in 2006 at the age of 28. At the time he was in a senior position, but there where technical people above him. He has moved on to find more money elsewhere.
Now this is the northern VA job market, but there are plenty of places in the US that cost a lot more to live in. 65k let's a single person rent in a nice area and buy a new 25k car and still eat out on the weekends.
Microsoft is a software company which has complained about the lack of skilled people. They also pay crap wages. However, the they is ambiguous as to whether or not it includes Microsoft or just Companies like them who are abusing the H1B program.
PS: If you a highly talented coder working 50hours a week and making under 140k your working for peanuts.
How about about cosmetic surgeons and makeup artists. I don't think they would find this piece of software useful but if you think of it as a line of research there are plenty of people who would pay for this. IMO it's closer to a useful product than all those facial identification packages that provide more false positives than you can shake a stick at.
The Democrats have been spending less from about 1960 till now. Add up the War on terror, War on drugs, Iraq war, prescription drug plan, the DoD's budget. To get an idea of just how much money the Republicans are willing to piss away.
Providing heath care to everyone under sixty five costs less than providing heath care to those over 65 which is what medicare does. There is a reason the US government spends more per person than Canada does with "universal heath care" and it has little to do with our diet.
Republicans like to focus on fractions of our budget but let's look at the 3 trillion the federal government spends and add what each state and local government spends and compare that will Canada, or Japan.
If you think you only need to care about the federal budget read up on how much No Child Left Behind cost the states if you want to see why this is important. The Bush solution to fix Social Security would have cost the taxpayers more money. But hey they call themselves fiscally conservative and they point to tiny areas of the budget where they cut back so a lot of people think they are.
If you really think politicians can be bought for 9k try it some time. Please step back and think about spending 200,000k on an election and then see how much it takes to be "bought".
I might vote for McCain if he showed some maverick ideas or even a few new ideas. So far he wants to cut 18billion from the 3,000 billion budget, but it's looking like the democrats are going to spend less money which is what I really care about. Obviously it's congress who controls the budget, however I still think the precedent could start with the DoD and then working though the less costly agency's.
It does work with 720p but if you want the full quote from the link:
Upscaler
Adjust settings for upscaled output when playing a DVD. Upscaling is a feature that can be used to enable content recorded at SD resolution (NTSC: 480p / 480i, PAL: 576p / 576i) to be displayed in HD resolution (1080p / 1080i / 720p). Because the video content of commercial DVDs is recorded in SD resolution, higher resolution video can be achieved by enabling upscaled output.
Off Set to disable upscaled output.
Double Scale*1 Set to upscale and display with double horizontal and vertical dimensions.>
Normal Set to upscale and display at a size that matches the screen size.
Full Screen*2 Set to upscale and display at full screen by stretching the image.
*1
This option can only be used when the video being played is in SD resolution and the video output setting of the PS3â system is set to 1080p or 1080i.
*2
The proportions of the video content may be changed for some content.
Gas is a refined product that takes about as much energy to refine and transport as it provides your car.
Power plant's are far cleaner and more efficient than the IC engine in your car.
Electric powertrains are more efficient and longer lasting than transmissions.
However, batteries suck and until they are better Honda and your local mechanic are both stuck using the same crap. The idea that we need to spend a lot of time and money designing hybrids is wrong because all of them operate efficiently enough that there is little room for significant improvement. It's all about the batteries at this point.
"This option can only be used when the video being played is in SD resolution and the video output setting of the PS3â system is set to 1080p or 1080i."
True, there were also hundreds of successful attacks under Bush II. Granted most of the deaths where not on the US soil and with 4 attacks on 9/11 it's was unlikely for anyone to prevent them all. However, I still 9/11 a US failure. The people on the 4th plane did more to reduce casualty's than the NSA, CIA, and FBI combined. IMO, reinforcing the cockpit door's is doing more to prevent another 9/11 than all other safety precautions. What bothers me about this bush presidency is the amount of expensive security theater that does little to protect us while costing a lot of money.
I am more than willing to give credit where credit is due, but having personally predicted a 9/11 style attack and having a prior attack on one of the target's suggests it would have been possible for reasonable precautions to be taken prior to 9/11. I would even have given credit if bush was moving in that direction as it takes a while but make real change but there was not even a hint of such things.
PS: Read up on this http://www.sans.org/resources/idfaq/solar_sunrise.php Now the level of response might seem a little high but several machines that happened to be running old hackable mail systems where also doing important things for the DoD. During the event several high level people thought the US might be under attack at the option to nuke a target was brought into discussion. (I was not there, but this is a simplyfied version of what I heard from someone who "was" and they had the right credentials to be involved in such things.)
Now consider how you might try and damage to US. If you kill a lot of people or take down the wrong systems we will bring out the nukes, because MAD is less insane when your target's don't have nukes. For now I don't think we need fear the huge attacks that kill millions just the dramatic attacks that kill thousands. Which is why I feel drunk drivers are going to kill more people in the US than terrorists for the foreseeable future. And why spending 100's of billions attacking and then rebuilding Iraq was just stupid.
I expect 80% of users would be fine with a dual core 2.4ghz CPU, 3gb of ram, 250gb HDD and a 32bit copy of vista. You can get from a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop for $368. If they need to play game you can just toss in a cheep graphics card. And in 3years when it's running like crap they can upgrade again.
IMO, the problem is laptops. For a little more you can get a laptop with about the same specs but they can't upgrade the graphics card so it's a large gamble. Then there is the huge price gap before they can buy gaming laptop and there is little reason to get one if they are not a gamer.
So, I suggest people get a small cheep laptop every few years and use a low end gaming rig if they want to start gaming. For around the same total cost they get a 900$ gaming desktop and 600$ laptop and get a lot more upgrade options and the laptop's battery life does not suck.
FYI: There was several failed terrorist attacks under Clinton's watch.
Bin Laden decided to downsize 9/11 so as to provoke the US without resulting in the US nuking anyone. Overall it has been a success on every level in large part duo an awe inspiring level of incompetence displayed by the US government and it's people.
Wind resistance is based on you speed cubed so it takes a lot more energy (~88%) than you might think to go from 70 to 82MPH. I don't know what the other forms of drag are but chances are 2mph of wind is far more important than the slope.
The existence of con (men / women) does not demonstrate the existence of psychics. In the same way that the existence of a crazy person which "talks" to their dog does not demonstrate that some dog(s) can talk.
What about releasing a product, getting sued, winning a major court case, war, or having the CEO change the companies direction. There are thousands of meaningful changes to a companies value and there is a lot of value to having people buy and sell stock whenever they wish.
It's a mesh network so your backbone needs are not as high as you might think. And the real limitations on bandwidth is routing not bandwidth down the line.
If you think of an OC-3 line as ~7,500$ per month and 45TB a month you end up with ~40$ for 250GB of bandwidth but that's upload and download so your backbone can send 250GB for around ~20$. Note: Comcast might want to get into web hosting to help balance their usage.
However, the more bandwidth you want the lower the price and OC-3 is still on the low end. Building a national fiber backbone is cheep it's keeping it up to date that costs money.
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I am sorry but total government taxation is more than just income tax. I know it's a shock to some people, but state and local governments frequently operate with zero income tax and yet they still get money. The federal government has a wide range of taxes and many of these tend to collect less as a % from people as they move up the income ladder. Or like SS they just stop asking for more money after you make X.
FYI: Income tax is not the only tax people pay. Social Security, Medicare, Property tax, sales tax, DMV etc.
Add them up and the average 40k/year homeowners a higher percentage of their income in taxes than Gill Gates.
PS: I know people hate income tax which is why we have all those hidden taxes but it's all just money and when the government spends it they take it from somewhere.
44% of all health care in the US is paid for by Federal, State, or Local tax dollars. Yet, I don't hear people complaining they want to cut back on medicare funding. Either government should get out of the heath care business or we should cover everyone trying to straddle the line just makes for more waste.
PS: We are spending 260billion a year on national debt interest and John McCain want's to just pile on more debt. When you look at total government taxation those who are most able to pay handover less than a family of four living off of 40k / year. But hey let's give the rich an even bigger tax break because it's hard to have a lot of money but having more will help them out.
It's a classic linear programming problem. A machine with the same basic facts as a person would come to basically the same solution. In the US there are limits on what can be broadcast in what time slots. Add in basic ratting information and I would be surprised in most stations built the schedules totally by hand.
If your happy that's great, but there are plenty of developers making over 200k / year. To put things into perspective a friend of mine without a collage degree who does system admin / scripting broke 140k /year in 2006 at the age of 28. At the time he was in a senior position, but there where technical people above him. He has moved on to find more money elsewhere.
Now this is the northern VA job market, but there are plenty of places in the US that cost a lot more to live in. 65k let's a single person rent in a nice area and buy a new 25k car and still eat out on the weekends.
Microsoft is a software company which has complained about the lack of skilled people. They also pay crap wages. However, the they is ambiguous as to whether or not it includes Microsoft or just Companies like them who are abusing the H1B program.
PS: If you a highly talented coder working 50hours a week and making under 140k your working for peanuts.
How about about cosmetic surgeons and makeup artists. I don't think they would find this piece of software useful but if you think of it as a line of research there are plenty of people who would pay for this. IMO it's closer to a useful product than all those facial identification packages that provide more false positives than you can shake a stick at.
The Democrats have been spending less from about 1960 till now. Add up the War on terror, War on drugs, Iraq war, prescription drug plan, the DoD's budget. To get an idea of just how much money the Republicans are willing to piss away.
Providing heath care to everyone under sixty five costs less than providing heath care to those over 65 which is what medicare does. There is a reason the US government spends more per person than Canada does with "universal heath care" and it has little to do with our diet.
Republicans like to focus on fractions of our budget but let's look at the 3 trillion the federal government spends and add what each state and local government spends and compare that will Canada, or Japan.
If you think you only need to care about the federal budget read up on how much No Child Left Behind cost the states if you want to see why this is important. The Bush solution to fix Social Security would have cost the taxpayers more money. But hey they call themselves fiscally conservative and they point to tiny areas of the budget where they cut back so a lot of people think they are.
If you really think politicians can be bought for 9k try it some time. Please step back and think about spending 200,000k on an election and then see how much it takes to be "bought".
I might vote for McCain if he showed some maverick ideas or even a few new ideas. So far he wants to cut 18billion from the 3,000 billion budget, but it's looking like the democrats are going to spend less money which is what I really care about. Obviously it's congress who controls the budget, however I still think the precedent could start with the DoD and then working though the less costly agency's.
It does work with 720p but if you want the full quote from the link:
Upscaler
Adjust settings for upscaled output when playing a DVD. Upscaling is a feature that can be used to enable content recorded at SD resolution (NTSC: 480p / 480i, PAL: 576p / 576i) to be displayed in HD resolution (1080p / 1080i / 720p). Because the video content of commercial DVDs is recorded in SD resolution, higher resolution video can be achieved by enabling upscaled output.
Off Set to disable upscaled output.
Double Scale*1 Set to upscale and display with double horizontal and vertical dimensions.>
Normal Set to upscale and display at a size that matches the screen size.
Full Screen*2 Set to upscale and display at full screen by stretching the image.
*1 This option can only be used when the video being played is in SD resolution and the video output setting of the PS3â system is set to 1080p or 1080i.
*2 The proportions of the video content may be changed for some content.
Gas is a refined product that takes about as much energy to refine and transport as it provides your car.
Power plant's are far cleaner and more efficient than the IC engine in your car.
Electric powertrains are more efficient and longer lasting than transmissions.
However, batteries suck and until they are better Honda and your local mechanic are both stuck using the same crap. The idea that we need to spend a lot of time and money designing hybrids is wrong because all of them operate efficiently enough that there is little room for significant improvement. It's all about the batteries at this point.
I am sorry, but you probably just wasted money because the PS3 does upscale DVD's. http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/bdsettings.html
"This option can only be used when the video being played is in SD resolution and the video output setting of the PS3â system is set to 1080p or 1080i."
India is the largest democracy as they have 1billion people and the US has around 300million.
True, there were also hundreds of successful attacks under Bush II. Granted most of the deaths where not on the US soil and with 4 attacks on 9/11 it's was unlikely for anyone to prevent them all. However, I still 9/11 a US failure. The people on the 4th plane did more to reduce casualty's than the NSA, CIA, and FBI combined. IMO, reinforcing the cockpit door's is doing more to prevent another 9/11 than all other safety precautions. What bothers me about this bush presidency is the amount of expensive security theater that does little to protect us while costing a lot of money.
I am more than willing to give credit where credit is due, but having personally predicted a 9/11 style attack and having a prior attack on one of the target's suggests it would have been possible for reasonable precautions to be taken prior to 9/11. I would even have given credit if bush was moving in that direction as it takes a while but make real change but there was not even a hint of such things.
PS: Read up on this http://www.sans.org/resources/idfaq/solar_sunrise.php Now the level of response might seem a little high but several machines that happened to be running old hackable mail systems where also doing important things for the DoD. During the event several high level people thought the US might be under attack at the option to nuke a target was brought into discussion. (I was not there, but this is a simplyfied version of what I heard from someone who "was" and they had the right credentials to be involved in such things.)
Now consider how you might try and damage to US. If you kill a lot of people or take down the wrong systems we will bring out the nukes, because MAD is less insane when your target's don't have nukes. For now I don't think we need fear the huge attacks that kill millions just the dramatic attacks that kill thousands. Which is why I feel drunk drivers are going to kill more people in the US than terrorists for the foreseeable future. And why spending 100's of billions attacking and then rebuilding Iraq was just stupid.
You can change large numbers of votes but less than you might think:
Bush got 3,799,639 Texas, Gore got 2,433,746 in Texas. Change 682,946 and Bush still wins, but change 682,947 and Gore wins, or you get a recount.
Bush got 47.87% or 50,456,002 total votes in 2000
Gore got 48.38% or 50,999,897 total votes in 2000 and lost.
So, Gore could have gotten "450,000" fewer votes and won the popular vote at the same time by trading the "right" 300 votes he would have won.
PS: Unless your talking about adding votes in states he won.
I expect 80% of users would be fine with a dual core 2.4ghz CPU, 3gb of ram, 250gb HDD and a 32bit copy of vista. You can get from a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop for $368. If they need to play game you can just toss in a cheep graphics card. And in 3years when it's running like crap they can upgrade again.
IMO, the problem is laptops. For a little more you can get a laptop with about the same specs but they can't upgrade the graphics card so it's a large gamble. Then there is the huge price gap before they can buy gaming laptop and there is little reason to get one if they are not a gamer.
So, I suggest people get a small cheep laptop every few years and use a low end gaming rig if they want to start gaming. For around the same total cost they get a 900$ gaming desktop and 600$ laptop and get a lot more upgrade options and the laptop's battery life does not suck.
FYI: There was several failed terrorist attacks under Clinton's watch.
Bin Laden decided to downsize 9/11 so as to provoke the US without resulting in the US nuking anyone. Overall it has been a success on every level in large part duo an awe inspiring level of incompetence displayed by the US government and it's people.
When you ban a gold seller you also ban people that took money from that account.
Every ban = new 50 bounty when the gold buyer needs to buy the game. I think you could pay people 30$ to find and ban accounts and come out ahead.
As gold inflation increases you just farm items to get gold to buy the item you want.
Wind resistance is based on you speed cubed so it takes a lot more energy (~88%) than you might think to go from 70 to 82MPH. I don't know what the other forms of drag are but chances are 2mph of wind is far more important than the slope.
The existence of con (men / women) does not demonstrate the existence of psychics. In the same way that the existence of a crazy person which "talks" to their dog does not demonstrate that some dog(s) can talk.
What about releasing a product, getting sued, winning a major court case, war, or having the CEO change the companies direction. There are thousands of meaningful changes to a companies value and there is a lot of value to having people buy and sell stock whenever they wish.
It's a mesh network so your backbone needs are not as high as you might think. And the real limitations on bandwidth is routing not bandwidth down the line. If you think of an OC-3 line as ~7,500$ per month and 45TB a month you end up with ~40$ for 250GB of bandwidth but that's upload and download so your backbone can send 250GB for around ~20$. Note: Comcast might want to get into web hosting to help balance their usage.
However, the more bandwidth you want the lower the price and OC-3 is still on the low end. Building a national fiber backbone is cheep it's keeping it up to date that costs money.
Just more food for the FUD.
Granted you're under water so you would have to be hugging the tube the whole time and standing in the worst area but even still
what's the exposure? water is a pretty good absorber if you have enough of it.
It looks like 3 post's trying and failing to say the same thing.