And not even all of them renounce their citizenship just to escape taxes. I know a man who married a Ukrainian woman and moved there. He renounced his US citizenship in 2010 to get Ukrainian citizenship.
Yup. I'm visiting the US and I've forgotten to take my disposable contacts with me (I prefer glasses for most kinds of activities). I was amazed that I can't buy contact lenses here. In the end, I paid $99 for an eye exam (that has confirmed my current prescription) and only then I could buy contacts (through lens.com ).
In my home country lenses are sold over the counter (sometimes even in "health isles" in supermarkets).
"If your electricity is out often and your rates are sky high, you have no recourse whatever. You just have to put up with it. It isn't like you can vote the CEO out or switch to another provider."
Your city council can kick the electric company in the butt.
Would it help if someone gives you keys to elevator while you're already falling off the Empire State Building?
By the time Democrats got control of the Congress it was too late to do anything. By the same token, dotcom crash happened during the Bush II era, but it can't be blamed on him - there simply was not time for him to do anything.
You don't get it. Yes, individual savings are OK and are essential.
But if _everyone_ starts saving a bigger part of their income than usual instead of using it, then EVERYONE suffers. That's what essentially is happening in the current Great Recession. And it actually hits the small businesses the worst because they usually depend on continuous stream on consumers.
They were critical for YOU. Sure. However, you might note that you had your business because you had customers. Who, you know, _spend_ money. Imagine that all your customers suddenly decided to stop spending on non-essential goods. As a result your company would go down quite soon.
We're seeing exactly this behavior in Europe - consumers were forced (by austerity measures or by cutting credit) to spend less. And lo and behold! Europe's economy double-dipped into recession.
Now, _some_ savings are OK and in fact are essential for the economy because they provide a safety blanket of liquidity.
"It's not about yield, it's about removing the potentially allergenic and toxic substances"
You mean 'food'?
'Organic farming' is nothing more than a buzzword. Its aim is to sell usually overpriced goods to idiotic consumers.
And what's fun, 'organic' strawberries still use 'non-organic' pesticides. But that's OK because they are used only 'sparingly' (and without them you won't get a good crop). See: http://www.baycitizen.org/food/story/organic-strawberries-not-so-much/
Nope. BSE is caused by mutant (misfolded) _proteins_ (not even viruses!) which can even survive cooking. Ammonia is no danger for them, as it doesn't affect proteins.
The problem is:
1) Cows SHOULD NOT even get infected. That means that cows are fed lightly processed cow meat.
2) BSE is a disease with very long incubation period. If BSE infected food supply then we can start getting many new infections.
3) BSE is incurable and always leads to death.
Well, let's see. My native ID says: _a_string_that_can't_be_rendered_by_slashdot_ which is my name.
My driving license and my old passport say "Alexey". My new passport and my US visa say "Aleksei". Both are valid transliterations of my name (world doesn't use only English, you know) from the point of view of Russian laws (US consulate that issued my visa also agrees). Yet I've had a problem with a TSA officer and almost missed my flight.
Oh, I also have a patronymic which was mistaken for my last name a couple of times.
"Also the only reason I ever heard of Yandex was because I saw their scraper on my website. I had never heard about it before. I guess Google is doing a GREAT job choking them."
Yandex is the most popular search engine in the xUSSR. It understands Russian (also Ukrainian and Belorussian) languages much better than Google. Besides, Yandex directly competes with Google Maps, Google Mail and other services in Russia. And quite successfully, in fact.
For English-speaking people Yandex is not really useful (its homepage is not even completely translated into English). Personally, I use Yandex when I need to search for something in Russian and Google all other times.
Remember Palin dissing 'fruit fly' research. It's stupid, right? Or some other candidate laughing about volcano research (right before the Eyjafjallajokull eruption).
It's no wonder that scientists don't wish to give extra ammunition to this crowd by poorly worded answers.
Have you actually looked at Venus in clear skies? During the closest approach it's bright enough so that people mistake it for a motorcycle _headlight_.
"able to go home almost immediately aka insta-antidote"
Not really. It probably means that some girls received a smaller dose of the poison. That's exactly what one should expect in a large-scale poisoning - simple chance would create such clusters.
Not going to happen. Android platform is BIG. And it works quite OK, actually.
Python is not going to cut it. It's interpreted (i.e. 'too slow') and has miserable multithreading. Dalvik VM is by now JIT-compiled with decent multi-threading. Besides, Python is a dynamic language and they are a pain for complex apps.
Go isn't going to cut it either because it's a purely compiled language.
"Compare the absorption profile of H20 vs CO2. Water is several times more. And a good bit of CO2s absorption profile is NOT in the infrared. Then recall that water vapor is 10x more common than CO2, then recall that CO2 is not concentrated at the surface, where we are concerned about the warming."
Water doesn't drive global warming. It only AMPLIFIES it because there's an equilibrium mechanism keeping water concentration in check (we call it 'rain' and sometimes 'snow'). There is no similar mechanism for CO2 (at least, acting on short timescales).
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Chechnya is an internal matter. Azerbaijan has nothing to do with Russia. You can make a case about Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Having to apply for visas to go anywhere. Believe me, it's not fun.
And not even all of them renounce their citizenship just to escape taxes. I know a man who married a Ukrainian woman and moved there. He renounced his US citizenship in 2010 to get Ukrainian citizenship.
And why would you need all of this for a 20-year old?
Yup. I'm visiting the US and I've forgotten to take my disposable contacts with me (I prefer glasses for most kinds of activities). I was amazed that I can't buy contact lenses here. In the end, I paid $99 for an eye exam (that has confirmed my current prescription) and only then I could buy contacts (through lens.com ).
In my home country lenses are sold over the counter (sometimes even in "health isles" in supermarkets).
"If your electricity is out often and your rates are sky high, you have no recourse whatever. You just have to put up with it. It isn't like you can vote the CEO out or switch to another provider." Your city council can kick the electric company in the butt.
Would it help if someone gives you keys to elevator while you're already falling off the Empire State Building? By the time Democrats got control of the Congress it was too late to do anything. By the same token, dotcom crash happened during the Bush II era, but it can't be blamed on him - there simply was not time for him to do anything.
And? Care to mention that inconsequential 2008 economic fiasco that CAUSED this 1300 billions of deficit? No? Yeah, fact cherry-picking is fun.
You don't get it. Yes, individual savings are OK and are essential. But if _everyone_ starts saving a bigger part of their income than usual instead of using it, then EVERYONE suffers. That's what essentially is happening in the current Great Recession. And it actually hits the small businesses the worst because they usually depend on continuous stream on consumers.
They were critical for YOU. Sure. However, you might note that you had your business because you had customers. Who, you know, _spend_ money. Imagine that all your customers suddenly decided to stop spending on non-essential goods. As a result your company would go down quite soon. We're seeing exactly this behavior in Europe - consumers were forced (by austerity measures or by cutting credit) to spend less. And lo and behold! Europe's economy double-dipped into recession. Now, _some_ savings are OK and in fact are essential for the economy because they provide a safety blanket of liquidity.
Yes. Look it up. Too much savings (in non-investment instruments) is BAD for economy. It's counterintuitive but true.
"It's not about yield, it's about removing the potentially allergenic and toxic substances" You mean 'food'? 'Organic farming' is nothing more than a buzzword. Its aim is to sell usually overpriced goods to idiotic consumers. And what's fun, 'organic' strawberries still use 'non-organic' pesticides. But that's OK because they are used only 'sparingly' (and without them you won't get a good crop). See: http://www.baycitizen.org/food/story/organic-strawberries-not-so-much/
No, it's definitely prions. They were identified as an infectious agents and were even shown to evolve (!!!) resistance to experimental anti-prion drugs. http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/12/evolution_without_genes_-_prions_can_evolve_and_adapt_too.php
Nope. BSE is caused by mutant (misfolded) _proteins_ (not even viruses!) which can even survive cooking. Ammonia is no danger for them, as it doesn't affect proteins.
The problem is: 1) Cows SHOULD NOT even get infected. That means that cows are fed lightly processed cow meat. 2) BSE is a disease with very long incubation period. If BSE infected food supply then we can start getting many new infections. 3) BSE is incurable and always leads to death.
What does your ID say? Use that information.
Well, let's see. My native ID says: _a_string_that_can't_be_rendered_by_slashdot_ which is my name.
My driving license and my old passport say "Alexey". My new passport and my US visa say "Aleksei". Both are valid transliterations of my name (world doesn't use only English, you know) from the point of view of Russian laws (US consulate that issued my visa also agrees). Yet I've had a problem with a TSA officer and almost missed my flight.
Oh, I also have a patronymic which was mistaken for my last name a couple of times.
"Also the only reason I ever heard of Yandex was because I saw their scraper on my website. I had never heard about it before. I guess Google is doing a GREAT job choking them."
Yandex is the most popular search engine in the xUSSR. It understands Russian (also Ukrainian and Belorussian) languages much better than Google. Besides, Yandex directly competes with Google Maps, Google Mail and other services in Russia. And quite successfully, in fact.
For English-speaking people Yandex is not really useful (its homepage is not even completely translated into English). Personally, I use Yandex when I need to search for something in Russian and Google all other times.
According to Russian laws it IS an illegal practice (the threshold for special treatment is 30% of the relevant mark, Google is close to it).
Besides, it's a rotten way to compete anyway.
That's not surprising at all.
Remember Palin dissing 'fruit fly' research. It's stupid, right? Or some other candidate laughing about volcano research (right before the Eyjafjallajokull eruption).
It's no wonder that scientists don't wish to give extra ammunition to this crowd by poorly worded answers.
What's even cooler, that speed is close to orbital speed. So with little additional thrust this plane can make it into orbit!
Have you actually looked at Venus in clear skies? During the closest approach it's bright enough so that people mistake it for a motorcycle _headlight_.
"able to go home almost immediately aka insta-antidote"
Not really. It probably means that some girls received a smaller dose of the poison. That's exactly what one should expect in a large-scale poisoning - simple chance would create such clusters.
So they should open their network to other providers, right? With reasonable interconnection fees.
Not going to happen. Android platform is BIG. And it works quite OK, actually.
Python is not going to cut it. It's interpreted (i.e. 'too slow') and has miserable multithreading. Dalvik VM is by now JIT-compiled with decent multi-threading. Besides, Python is a dynamic language and they are a pain for complex apps.
Go isn't going to cut it either because it's a purely compiled language.
"Compare the absorption profile of H20 vs CO2. Water is several times more. And a good bit of CO2s absorption profile is NOT in the infrared. Then recall that water vapor is 10x more common than CO2, then recall that CO2 is not concentrated at the surface, where we are concerned about the warming."
Water doesn't drive global warming. It only AMPLIFIES it because there's an equilibrium mechanism keeping water concentration in check (we call it 'rain' and sometimes 'snow'). There is no similar mechanism for CO2 (at least, acting on short timescales).
So please, stop spouting idiotic drivel.