Secondly, even if Sealand was a real country, it's not a country any other country needs to maintain relations with. If they find out that they dislike you, they will be perfectly happy to shut down your Internet connection.
Easier way. In order for there to be a decent internet connection comming out of Sealand, they would have to have an undersea fibre connection.
1 Submarine + 1 Pair Clippers = Server Unavailable
I buy lots of CDs and DVDs. None of it goes to the MPAA or RIAA or the Canadian equivalents. Just about everything I buy is from companies outside those cartels. You might want to look at doing the same and learn of some new artists you've never heard before.
Why not declare war against the U.S.?
A majority of their troops is in foreign countries, anyway, so why not give it a try?
At which point, you would find out that the majority of guns in the U.S. are not owned by the military. I personally know a few dozen hunters with larger arsenals [i]each[/i] than most police precincts.
No, we would use a radius of 1 for standard stuff. However, here is one of the things I have to do and we would have a different radius at just about each point in the problem.
On an XY chart, where x is the real axis and y is the imaginary,
I have to calculate the angles to an arbitrary point from several different points on the chart. So, say I need to calculate the angles to (5,3) (5+3i) and I have a bunch of points scattered throughout the chart. So, lets say I have 3 more points. (0,0), (10,0), (6,1),(6,-1). I then need to add one or more points such that the sum of the angles from those four points and the points I add is 180 degrees. Doing this in Radians would be a friggin pain as I would have to account for the varying distance to the point.
There are a few other details, such as any point with an imaginary component must be part of a symmetric pair (6,1) and (6,-1) are an example of this, with regards to the real axis.
Remember, Radians is based on measuring the radius of the arc. Not on measuring the angle difference. When you start doing problems that don't have constant radii (or something equivalent) it gets to be a pain when doing calculations.
Some companies, like BP, aren't pure evil. Some, like Sony BMG, totally are.
This view is, like anyones, based on your views and experience. (Mind you, I don't necessarily disagree, I'm just going to point out another viewpoint).
The GW groups would probably consider BP pure evil as they pump and sell oil, regardless of anything else they do. Sony BMG, on the other hand, doesn't have any direct say in it so they wouldn't consider them evil.
On the other hand, most of us on/. are anti-DRM, anti-RIAA and pro-It's MY Computer so we generally consider Sony BMG a negative force with BP being fairly decent with all them investing the oil profits into alternative energy schemes.
Taking a Nuclear Power Plant can also be good or evil depending on your view. Energy free of CO2 emmissions or a Chernobyl waiting to happen.
18 months ago I read an article that said Toshiba said they had a triple layer HD-DVD disk which holds 45GB, which pretty much makes the extra expense of Blue-Ray pointless.
Except that Blu-Ray is supposed to scale to 200GB. (4 layers, double sided)
That said, I'm gonna agree with this and say HD-DVD is the probable winner.
All the porn sites are going to do is redirect the.xxx domains onto their established.com domains. There has to be some way to force porn off the.com TLD.
I'm gonna take a wild guess at something for this. However, it would require blocking software.
No sane operator of a porn site is not going to register their.com/.org/.net sites in the.XXX domain. So, what software could do, is check the.com/.org/.net site and see if it resolves the same as the.XXX domain. If so, then you would know that it is most likely a porn site.
Basically, the.XXX domain could provide a nice crosscheck for a lot of sites.
Interesting. I could have sworn I got the 25 figure from the manufacturers site (I can't even find an MPG on honda's site now). Thanks for this one. I especially like the figures on the ones that get 70+MPG.
A quick question. Do you have any info on triycles(?) I've been wondering about getting a motor cycle but I'm not that sure about my balance (among a few other things). So, I was thinking a triycle might be better. Any thoughts? Any ideas on who even sells them? Thanks for anything you can provide.
Actually I'd still say it's more efficient since internal combustion engines only convert a fraction (like 20%) of the energy in the fuel to anything besides heat.
Just remember this. That is with the standard gasoline engine in cars that have to run with variable loads and RPMs. When you basically fix the max load and run at a constant RPM in a generator (what we have here), you can make the engine much more efficient.
So how can Tesla, a startup company with little manufacturing and car experience relative to GM, build an electric car that can make it 200 miles on a charge, while GM can only build one that makes it 40?
Tesla with little manufacturing and car experience? HA! The guy in charge of Tesla is having Lotus build the cars. Additionaly, he kept hiring so many engineers from Lotus that they forced him to sign a contract saying he would stop doing that or they would refuse to manufacture the car.
I'd also add that this car does what Diesel Trains have been doing since they replaced coal. Diesel trains use Diesel to generate electricity to power electric motors. You're right, this is exactly what we've been waiting for and what I've told people is necessary to replace the current generation of cars.
Also, now that the drive train has been disconnected from the engine, we can move on to any type of fuel we want for the generator.
Why do you need to drag a 4 seat 3000+ pound car around at 25mpg, when you can use a 1 (or 2) seat 600 pound motorcycle at 50mpg?
Ummm... I've been looking at a lot of motorcycles. The vast majority get only 25mph from what I have seen. This includes Hondas and Harleys. Only two of three models that I have seen get 50mpg. I've heard this is due to the smaller engine being less efficient than that larger car engine.
The smart, ambitious people apply to come into the US legally through the immigration process.
There are quotas and costs associated with it. Far more smart and ambitious people are interested in coming to the US than are granted work permits.
And you are also failing to make the distinction between legally immigrating or working in the US and being allowed to become a US citizen - it takes years before you can even apply for citizenship after you have legally immigrated.
Still doesn't matter. Either way, those who are smart and ambitious will still follow the law.
That is what we're fighting against here, that is why we're losing -- because we're not fighting some heady battle against "immigration" we're fighting to opress smart, ambitious people. And that's not going to work.
The smart, ambitious people apply to come into the US legally through the immigration process. The rest cross the border and break our laws doing so. I've met a lot of smart immigrants who came here legally through the immigration process. One of them is a professor at a state school. What would we be saying to them if we let anyone who jumps the border become a US citizen? What does that say about "fairness" that those who cheat and skip the line are given precedent over those who follow the law that was laid down? I know a lot of immigrants who came here legally are pissed at the illegals being here, regardless of where they came from.
Just a quick addition, a consumption tax shouldn't be a sales tax. It should be, just like you said, a tax on how much you spend in a year. That way you can make it progressive if you want, where people sum up the amount they spend in a year and pay taxes on that. This avoids loopholes where rich people by 1 million of something that's not taxed because some lobbyist wanted it not taxed. The only way to avoid taxes is to reduce the total stuff you buy over the year (and if it's low enough, probably not taxed). That means you save the money, which is good for everyone (more capital and labor, less consumer merchandise and luxury).
NO! No "progressive" tax! Leave it as a straight percentage and the same percentage for all non-necessary goods. Otherwise, you WILL start to have more problems like you do now only worse. It also makes it easier to enforce as the stores are the ones who collect the taxes. It is very hard for a store to dodge the sales tax anymore. It would be quite easy to "lose" a receipt or "forget" how much one has spent throughout the year.
A progressive tax encourages the idea that only the rich should pay income taxes and that government services are free. (As, to the lower tax brackets, they essentially are) Having a "progressive" consumption tax eliminates most of the reasoning behind having one.
For every bad example of warning labels you can pull out of your hat, I can name ten good examples of warning labels that are absolutely necessary. For example, "Don't try to remove grass clogging lawn mower before turning off" and "buckle your seat belt" and "do not step on top step of ladder" and "do not use hair dryer in bathtub". These are all things that ordinary prudent people think are safe to do, but really aren't.
I think we have different expectancies of people. To me, putting my hands anywhere near a fast moving piece of metal (lawnmower blade) is dangerous. Buckle your Seat Belt is THE LAW and common sense. Not stepping on the top step of a ladder is common sense for anything but a step stool. Finally, a Hair Dryer is an electric device. I've been taught since elementary not to get electric devices wet. How are any of these NOT common sense?
Uncompensated instructors (home schoolers) will be compensated at a rate of current federal minimum wage divided by 25 (for theoretical average public class size) times 5.5 hours (school day) x 180 days schooling, currently $204 per child per year. Note: uncompensated instructors claiming the $204 per child will be subject to 15% self-empoyment taxes. Fees will be subject to increases each year to keep up with cost of education, and will be added until such child reaches 18 years old. If you can't keep your kids in school 'til they're 18, consider the tax a parental penalty for truancy.
I think your math is off by a bit. First, $204*25=$5100. I'd love to know where in the US a teacher can live on that amount. Second, you are not including the costs of desks, books, buildings, busing, electricity, and other portions of the school budget. My county spends about $10,000/year/student. Give half that, and then we'll talk.
Capitalism has a wealth redistribution system. It is called "Work". You see, you get what is called a "Job" and they pay you money for doing something. Welfare is the act of getting money for doing nothing.
We also have these things called "charities" that people give money to of their own free will without having to be taxed to support them. These "charities" then spend their money on helping people in need as well and with a lot less overhead than the fed.
Ok, so you are spending $399 for a 1TB drive. Compare this to a 400G (uncompressed) LTO-3 tape @ $50 per tape (price is good as of yesterday when I ordered another 100 LTO-3 tapes). Your drive is about 3x as expensive.
You are failing to include the cost of the LTO-3 Tape DRIVE. Which, in itself, will cost around $3000 for a cheap one (thanks, CDW) and require a SCSI connection.
So, while the LTO-3 Tapes may cost 1/3rd as much, they still require the several thousand dollar LTO-3 drive and a SCSI connection which most computers do not have. So, for lower amounts of data, the drives are cheaper.
Just imagine how advanced our technology would be if all that money spent on preparing for welfare was actually spent on applied research and development. Certainly much more than feeling good about the "crumbs" falling from a welfare-prioritized budget program.
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Secondly, even if Sealand was a real country, it's not a country any other country needs to maintain relations with. If they find out that they dislike you, they will be perfectly happy to shut down your Internet connection. Easier way. In order for there to be a decent internet connection comming out of Sealand, they would have to have an undersea fibre connection.
1 Submarine + 1 Pair Clippers = Server Unavailable
I buy lots of CDs and DVDs. None of it goes to the MPAA or RIAA or the Canadian equivalents. Just about everything I buy is from companies outside those cartels. You might want to look at doing the same and learn of some new artists you've never heard before.
Why not declare war against the U.S.?
A majority of their troops is in foreign countries, anyway, so why not give it a try?
At which point, you would find out that the majority of guns in the U.S. are not owned by the military. I personally know a few dozen hunters with larger arsenals [i]each[/i] than most police precincts.
Ok, they say that you can recharge the Li-Ion batter by plugging it in. How do you recharge the fuel cell? They say nothing about electolisys.
Remeber Sudan/Darfur?
Serbiea/Kosovo?
Bosnia?
Tianement Square?
Tibet?
Rwanda?
The Korean War was just about the last time the UN had a backbone.
No, we would use a radius of 1 for standard stuff. However, here is one of the things I have to do and we would have a different radius at just about each point in the problem.
On an XY chart, where x is the real axis and y is the imaginary,
I have to calculate the angles to an arbitrary point from several different points on the chart. So, say I need to calculate the angles to (5,3) (5+3i) and I have a bunch of points scattered throughout the chart. So, lets say I have 3 more points. (0,0), (10,0), (6,1),(6,-1). I then need to add one or more points such that the sum of the angles from those four points and the points I add is 180 degrees. Doing this in Radians would be a friggin pain as I would have to account for the varying distance to the point.
There are a few other details, such as any point with an imaginary component must be part of a symmetric pair (6,1) and (6,-1) are an example of this, with regards to the real axis.
Remember, Radians is based on measuring the radius of the arc. Not on measuring the angle difference. When you start doing problems that don't have constant radii (or something equivalent) it gets to be a pain when doing calculations.
Here's a wiki link on the plot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole-zero_plot
As an engineer, I would prefer to keep Degrees. It's a lot more useful to me than radians, since I deal with differing radii.
Some companies, like BP, aren't pure evil. Some, like Sony BMG, totally are.
/. are anti-DRM, anti-RIAA and pro-It's MY Computer so we generally consider Sony BMG a negative force with BP being fairly decent with all them investing the oil profits into alternative energy schemes.
This view is, like anyones, based on your views and experience. (Mind you, I don't necessarily disagree, I'm just going to point out another viewpoint).
The GW groups would probably consider BP pure evil as they pump and sell oil, regardless of anything else they do. Sony BMG, on the other hand, doesn't have any direct say in it so they wouldn't consider them evil.
On the other hand, most of us on
Taking a Nuclear Power Plant can also be good or evil depending on your view. Energy free of CO2 emmissions or a Chernobyl waiting to happen.
18 months ago I read an article that said Toshiba said they had a triple layer HD-DVD disk which holds 45GB, which pretty much makes the extra expense of Blue-Ray pointless.
Except that Blu-Ray is supposed to scale to 200GB. (4 layers, double sided)
That said, I'm gonna agree with this and say HD-DVD is the probable winner.
All the porn sites are going to do is redirect the .xxx domains onto their established .com domains. There has to be some way to force porn off the .com TLD.
.com/.org/.net sites in the .XXX domain. So, what software could do, is check the .com/.org/.net site and see if it resolves the same as the .XXX domain. If so, then you would know that it is most likely a porn site.
.XXX domain could provide a nice crosscheck for a lot of sites.
I'm gonna take a wild guess at something for this. However, it would require blocking software.
No sane operator of a porn site is not going to register their
Basically, the
Who wouldn't pay a premium price for the rights to the www.sex.xxx domain?
Easy, The guy who owns the XXX.XXX.XXX domain.
Interesting. I could have sworn I got the 25 figure from the manufacturers site (I can't even find an MPG on honda's site now). Thanks for this one. I especially like the figures on the ones that get 70+MPG.
A quick question. Do you have any info on triycles(?) I've been wondering about getting a motor cycle but I'm not that sure about my balance (among a few other things). So, I was thinking a triycle might be better. Any thoughts? Any ideas on who even sells them? Thanks for anything you can provide.
Actually I'd still say it's more efficient since internal combustion engines only convert a fraction (like 20%) of the energy in the fuel to anything besides heat.
Just remember this. That is with the standard gasoline engine in cars that have to run with variable loads and RPMs. When you basically fix the max load and run at a constant RPM in a generator (what we have here), you can make the engine much more efficient.
So how can Tesla, a startup company with little manufacturing and car experience relative to GM, build an electric car that can make it 200 miles on a charge, while GM can only build one that makes it 40?
Tesla with little manufacturing and car experience? HA! The guy in charge of Tesla is having Lotus build the cars. Additionaly, he kept hiring so many engineers from Lotus that they forced him to sign a contract saying he would stop doing that or they would refuse to manufacture the car.
I'd also add that this car does what Diesel Trains have been doing since they replaced coal. Diesel trains use Diesel to generate electricity to power electric motors. You're right, this is exactly what we've been waiting for and what I've told people is necessary to replace the current generation of cars.
Also, now that the drive train has been disconnected from the engine, we can move on to any type of fuel we want for the generator.
Why do you need to drag a 4 seat 3000+ pound car around at 25mpg, when you can use a 1 (or 2) seat 600 pound motorcycle at 50mpg?
Ummm... I've been looking at a lot of motorcycles. The vast majority get only 25mph from what I have seen. This includes Hondas and Harleys. Only two of three models that I have seen get 50mpg. I've heard this is due to the smaller engine being less efficient than that larger car engine.
There are quotas and costs associated with it. Far more smart and ambitious people are interested in coming to the US than are granted work permits.
And you are also failing to make the distinction between legally immigrating or working in the US and being allowed to become a US citizen - it takes years before you can even apply for citizenship after you have legally immigrated.
Still doesn't matter. Either way, those who are smart and ambitious will still follow the law.That is what we're fighting against here, that is why we're losing -- because we're not fighting some heady battle against "immigration" we're fighting to opress smart, ambitious people. And that's not going to work.
The smart, ambitious people apply to come into the US legally through the immigration process. The rest cross the border and break our laws doing so. I've met a lot of smart immigrants who came here legally through the immigration process. One of them is a professor at a state school. What would we be saying to them if we let anyone who jumps the border become a US citizen? What does that say about "fairness" that those who cheat and skip the line are given precedent over those who follow the law that was laid down? I know a lot of immigrants who came here legally are pissed at the illegals being here, regardless of where they came from.
Just a quick addition, a consumption tax shouldn't be a sales tax. It should be, just like you said, a tax on how much you spend in a year. That way you can make it progressive if you want, where people sum up the amount they spend in a year and pay taxes on that. This avoids loopholes where rich people by 1 million of something that's not taxed because some lobbyist wanted it not taxed. The only way to avoid taxes is to reduce the total stuff you buy over the year (and if it's low enough, probably not taxed). That means you save the money, which is good for everyone (more capital and labor, less consumer merchandise and luxury).
NO! No "progressive" tax! Leave it as a straight percentage and the same percentage for all non-necessary goods. Otherwise, you WILL start to have more problems like you do now only worse. It also makes it easier to enforce as the stores are the ones who collect the taxes. It is very hard for a store to dodge the sales tax anymore. It would be quite easy to "lose" a receipt or "forget" how much one has spent throughout the year.
A progressive tax encourages the idea that only the rich should pay income taxes and that government services are free. (As, to the lower tax brackets, they essentially are) Having a "progressive" consumption tax eliminates most of the reasoning behind having one.
For every bad example of warning labels you can pull out of your hat, I can name ten good examples of warning labels that are absolutely necessary. For example, "Don't try to remove grass clogging lawn mower before turning off" and "buckle your seat belt" and "do not step on top step of ladder" and "do not use hair dryer in bathtub". These are all things that ordinary prudent people think are safe to do, but really aren't.
I think we have different expectancies of people. To me, putting my hands anywhere near a fast moving piece of metal (lawnmower blade) is dangerous. Buckle your Seat Belt is THE LAW and common sense. Not stepping on the top step of a ladder is common sense for anything but a step stool. Finally, a Hair Dryer is an electric device. I've been taught since elementary not to get electric devices wet. How are any of these NOT common sense?
Uncompensated instructors (home schoolers) will be compensated at a rate of current federal minimum wage divided by 25 (for theoretical average public class size) times 5.5 hours (school day) x 180 days schooling, currently $204 per child per year. Note: uncompensated instructors claiming the $204 per child will be subject to 15% self-empoyment taxes. Fees will be subject to increases each year to keep up with cost of education, and will be added until such child reaches 18 years old. If you can't keep your kids in school 'til they're 18, consider the tax a parental penalty for truancy.
I think your math is off by a bit. First, $204*25=$5100. I'd love to know where in the US a teacher can live on that amount. Second, you are not including the costs of desks, books, buildings, busing, electricity, and other portions of the school budget. My county spends about $10,000/year/student. Give half that, and then we'll talk.
Capitalism has a wealth redistribution system. It is called "Work". You see, you get what is called a "Job" and they pay you money for doing something. Welfare is the act of getting money for doing nothing.
We also have these things called "charities" that people give money to of their own free will without having to be taxed to support them. These "charities" then spend their money on helping people in need as well and with a lot less overhead than the fed.
Ok, so you are spending $399 for a 1TB drive. Compare this to a 400G (uncompressed) LTO-3 tape @ $50 per tape (price is good as of yesterday when I ordered another 100 LTO-3 tapes). Your drive is about 3x as expensive.
You are failing to include the cost of the LTO-3 Tape DRIVE. Which, in itself, will cost around $3000 for a cheap one (thanks, CDW) and require a SCSI connection.
So, while the LTO-3 Tapes may cost 1/3rd as much, they still require the several thousand dollar LTO-3 drive and a SCSI connection which most computers do not have. So, for lower amounts of data, the drives are cheaper.
Just imagine how advanced our technology would be if all that money spent on preparing for welfare was actually spent on applied research and development. Certainly much more than feeling good about the "crumbs" falling from a welfare-prioritized budget program.
Has any one on this thread purchased more than 1 CD last year?
At least 2 recently and I am looking at one more off the top of my head. Along with well over 40 DVDs.