Nintendo has refused to innovate before (sticking with the tried-and-true cartridge based system when Sony was going for the CD-based Playstation...given that you could say the fact that the N64 did 3D and did it well gives it a heads up over the PSX).
I am not sure which way it was, but Nintendo either worked with Sony, or sold to Sony the Playstation technology. The reason Nintendo did not themselves go with it at the time was due to the long load times associated with the CD system. For better or worse, they decided to wait until the Game Cube when load times had dropped to about that of a cartridge in order to go with a disk based system.
Can anyone tell me if a Dual-Dual-core processor box is better than a quad-single-core box? I know none are out yet so we can't do benchmarks, but I would think that there might be bottlenecks or something that would make a quad-single-core perform better.
Only problem comes on what that first $xxx is. If it is. First you have the argument over at what point it should be. Anyone below that amount wouldn't give a shit over the tax rate as they wouldn't be paying any (we are starting to have this problem now with many people filing zero tax returns). They would say, up the taxes and not care, and still want any freebies they were getting before. Second, Inflation would make it so that more people would be above that over time and tying it to inflation would not necessarily be the best idea as that same argument would start to apply. If you're going to tax at a flat rate and truly call it fair it has to be everyone at the same rate with no deductions at all.
As for reducing the burden on the poor, I think that if you taxed everyone at the same rate with no deductions at all (starting at 25% is just my example here) I would bet that the rate could be reduced as more money would probably flow in than now. Look at the reasons behind the Alternative Minimum Tax and you will see why. Deductions of any sort create loopholes.
There are two possible solutions to this. First, (for regular pages) don't index words/content that are invisible to the viewer.
Second, and this is going to be a pain for when people try to figure out why their outgoing pipe just filed up, Don't use "GoogleBot" or whatever identifier they use when pulling up the pages. That is possible, but people will want to know why someone is using up all their bandwidth very rapidly.
Lock down the borders, and have a good national debate on what levels of immigration we want, and from where immigrants should come. Recall our military from Europe and the Korean pennisula, from Japan and from Cuba. Line up our military on the borders, North and South, East and West, and keep out anyone who doesn't belong, no questions asked.
lock down the borders: INS has been trying to do this, but every time they are called racist or something about causing untold environmental damage (that 3.5 mile fence they want to build in texas).
The military in South Korea are there becuase (among other things) we are still technically at war with North Korea (just no shooting has been done in a while). We have a defence treaty with SK where we defend them and if we left NK would most likely invade SK. Also, your Constitutional Amendmen would keep us from defending another country that we have a mutual defence clause with if we weren't attacked. There are a few other problems with your proposal, but that is the basics.
Create an all-volunteer expeditonary force
I believe that the National Guard does some of what you mention here, just for inside the US only.
As someone who was on Prozac and Ritilan and actually was depressed (as described by the psychiatrist and neurologist) I do agree with you. Though in my case the Prozac was initially necessary it was not and I was weaned off of it (keeping with the regular weekly meetings witht he psychiatrist).
I personally think the bigest problem lies more with the "diagnosis" of ADD and ADHD than others, though. I had a teacher that said I was ADD in elementary. Nope, just bored out of my skull at how slow the teacher was going (which is why I stared at the ceiling and to see the paterns in the tiles). Ask you dad about the overdiagnosis of ADD and ADHD if you haven't already. That will really give you a scare, especially for when (if you don't already) have kids.
That's why you should have a flat tax with absolutely no deductions at all. Start with 25% and work your way from there. Then, no one can complain about how someone else isn't paying their fair share or that someone else is using a loophole. Also, with no brackets, you aren't having an auto increase in taxes every X years as inflation raises your salary (as the brackets stay the same). If the gov tries to raise the percentage you can ask them why they need a larger portion of the taxpayers money than before.
This is the dividing line between the definition of Conservative vs. Liberal (by the "dictionary" definitions) [note: this is different from Republican vs. Democrat]. A Conservative thinks that things can best be done by private corporations/individuals, small government pretty much no interfering with anything unless it is necessary. A Liberal thinks that government can do everything the best as it has the most access to money, organization and so on.
In practice it is a bit different, depending on the individual.
Prevalent norm? Not sure I agree with that. I know many people that help out. To go from my point of view, I would rather have the option of helping out rather than being forced through taxes to help out. I.E. The moment the government stops forced charity through taxes, then I will start giving more money to various charities.
As for the other groups of people (and I am included in parts of this): Habitat for Humanity, the (Boy and Girl) Scouts, Churches (multiple religions/denomintations), MDA and others.
From what you say, and if it has gotten to this point I will have lost all hope in the US, we (in the US) are no better than Hitlers Nazis who used prisoners, Jews, Blacks, Gays, Gypsies and others for scientific experments.
Considering a lot of what they are saying and implying, I can understand why McDonalds's is suing. Lets start with McDonald's is directly involved in this economic imperialism, which keeps most black people poor and hungry while many whites grow fat. Hmm... like I've never seen a black person eat at Mics before nor a skiny white guy.
Just remember, It's those FDA restrictions (which I assume you mean as opposed to USDA which is the Department of Agriculture) that kept Thalidomide from being as widely used in the US as it was in Europe.
I personally wonder what they would do for the comanies that have to buy computers for business. We are looking at purchasing a $16,000 computer (no typo) for one purpose only, and that is cheap compared to some of what we do here. Are we going to have to pay an aditional $160 for music artists? That $160 isn't much compared to the price of the machine, but it stacks up when compared to the number we generally purchase over a few years. And in the next year we are looking at purchasing several hundred several thousand dollar computers as well. None of which will be used by individuals. Total cost? In the millions. I see no reason for the RIAA to get tens of thousands of dollars for servers that nobody is going to have music or personal files on.
I can pretty much garuntee taht that brochure cost less than $7.50, probably closer to $1 or $2 at most, plus international postage. That brochure is mass produced and designed from a template. Not customized or anything.
On a side note, If your native language is not english, was the note/is the IEEE in your native language? I am curious if the IEEE translates articles into other languages (as that woul increase their cost of publishing).
Hanging: get this one wrong, so the rope snaps or the support breaks, and you end up a vegetable lying on a bed for the rest of your life. Also very unpleasant suffocation or broken neck.
If you get it wrong, you could also wind up having your head seperated from your body. Too long a rope, you sever your head, too short, you sufficate, just right, you break your neck and that is it.
Depends on what law is being broken and why. If you violate an NDA to report something such as a company that is doing illegal dumping or something that is illegal, the whistleblower is protected. This part has been tested in court multiple times.
If you violate an NDA to disclose a companies business plans that in no way harm anyone (other than competing businesses), that is what this case is about.
If you break an NDA and in the process cause harm, without there being any public good involved... Well, with reference to that CIA(?) agent whose name was disclosed, that's still in court but apparently not. (Case still in appeals process, though. Expect it to go before the US Supreme Court.)
There are several different cases of this, each with a different reason behind it. The protections clauses are still (apparently) being decided over what should be protected and what shouldn't. Personally, I am curious about how different the think secret case is from Industrial Espionage, other than think secret not personally gaining money or working for another company. Course, they may be making prestige and money from links and they might be considered a company themselves but that is for another discussion.
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The just do it like Sega did Sonic:2 136&type=product&id=1051806879944
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=490
Nintendo has refused to innovate before (sticking with the tried-and-true cartridge based system when Sony was going for the CD-based Playstation...given that you could say the fact that the N64 did 3D and did it well gives it a heads up over the PSX).
I am not sure which way it was, but Nintendo either worked with Sony, or sold to Sony the Playstation technology. The reason Nintendo did not themselves go with it at the time was due to the long load times associated with the CD system. For better or worse, they decided to wait until the Game Cube when load times had dropped to about that of a cartridge in order to go with a disk based system.
Can anyone tell me if a Dual-Dual-core processor box is better than a quad-single-core box? I know none are out yet so we can't do benchmarks, but I would think that there might be bottlenecks or something that would make a quad-single-core perform better.
Only problem comes on what that first $xxx is. If it is. First you have the argument over at what point it should be. Anyone below that amount wouldn't give a shit over the tax rate as they wouldn't be paying any (we are starting to have this problem now with many people filing zero tax returns). They would say, up the taxes and not care, and still want any freebies they were getting before. Second, Inflation would make it so that more people would be above that over time and tying it to inflation would not necessarily be the best idea as that same argument would start to apply. If you're going to tax at a flat rate and truly call it fair it has to be everyone at the same rate with no deductions at all.
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As for reducing the burden on the poor, I think that if you taxed everyone at the same rate with no deductions at all (starting at 25% is just my example here) I would bet that the rate could be reduced as more money would probably flow in than now. Look at the reasons behind the Alternative Minimum Tax and you will see why. Deductions of any sort create loopholes.
Info on the zeron return filers can be found here. http://www.taxfoundation.org/ff/zerotaxfilers.htm
Well, Considering I can buy a 4GB Compact Flash card they could very well do that. Cost is probably higher but I think that the power usage is lower.
There are two possible solutions to this. First, (for regular pages) don't index words/content that are invisible to the viewer.
Second, and this is going to be a pain for when people try to figure out why their outgoing pipe just filed up, Don't use "GoogleBot" or whatever identifier they use when pulling up the pages. That is possible, but people will want to know why someone is using up all their bandwidth very rapidly.
I think that this is part of the reason they are so angry. They can not believe that their guy lost because of those stupid trailer park people.
You made me think of a phrase here. "And they call them elitist". Them as in republicans/conservatives/trailer park people.
Lock down the borders, and have a good national debate on what levels of immigration we want, and from where immigrants should come. Recall our military from Europe and the Korean pennisula, from Japan and from Cuba. Line up our military on the borders, North and South, East and West, and keep out anyone who doesn't belong, no questions asked.
lock down the borders: INS has been trying to do this, but every time they are called racist or something about causing untold environmental damage (that 3.5 mile fence they want to build in texas).
The military in South Korea are there becuase (among other things) we are still technically at war with North Korea (just no shooting has been done in a while). We have a defence treaty with SK where we defend them and if we left NK would most likely invade SK. Also, your Constitutional Amendmen would keep us from defending another country that we have a mutual defence clause with if we weren't attacked. There are a few other problems with your proposal, but that is the basics.
Create an all-volunteer expeditonary force
I believe that the National Guard does some of what you mention here, just for inside the US only.
As someone who was on Prozac and Ritilan and actually was depressed (as described by the psychiatrist and neurologist) I do agree with you. Though in my case the Prozac was initially necessary it was not and I was weaned off of it (keeping with the regular weekly meetings witht he psychiatrist).
I personally think the bigest problem lies more with the "diagnosis" of ADD and ADHD than others, though. I had a teacher that said I was ADD in elementary. Nope, just bored out of my skull at how slow the teacher was going (which is why I stared at the ceiling and to see the paterns in the tiles). Ask you dad about the overdiagnosis of ADD and ADHD if you haven't already. That will really give you a scare, especially for when (if you don't already) have kids.
That's why you should have a flat tax with absolutely no deductions at all. Start with 25% and work your way from there. Then, no one can complain about how someone else isn't paying their fair share or that someone else is using a loophole. Also, with no brackets, you aren't having an auto increase in taxes every X years as inflation raises your salary (as the brackets stay the same). If the gov tries to raise the percentage you can ask them why they need a larger portion of the taxpayers money than before.
Thank you.
This is the dividing line between the definition of Conservative vs. Liberal (by the "dictionary" definitions) [note: this is different from Republican vs. Democrat]. A Conservative thinks that things can best be done by private corporations/individuals, small government pretty much no interfering with anything unless it is necessary. A Liberal thinks that government can do everything the best as it has the most access to money, organization and so on.
In practice it is a bit different, depending on the individual.
Yes, I believe this is a link about one of them:
http://www.remember.org/educate/medexp.html
Well, consider me the first I guess.
Just for my notes Atheist, Agnostic, not a strong believer or other? I am serious here as I am considering referencing this in future posts.
Embryonic stem cell reseach, on the other hand, could help to save people's lives.
Research on Adult Humans, on the other hand, could help save people's lives.
Prevalent norm? Not sure I agree with that. I know many people that help out. To go from my point of view, I would rather have the option of helping out rather than being forced through taxes to help out. I.E. The moment the government stops forced charity through taxes, then I will start giving more money to various charities.
As for the other groups of people (and I am included in parts of this): Habitat for Humanity, the (Boy and Girl) Scouts, Churches (multiple religions/denomintations), MDA and others.
From what you say, and if it has gotten to this point I will have lost all hope in the US, we (in the US) are no better than Hitlers Nazis who used prisoners, Jews, Blacks, Gays, Gypsies and others for scientific experments.
I've seen a few, albeit they are fal and few between. Unfortunately it was just spoiled by DavidTC (sister post to yours)
Dimitri Dkylarov was not extradited to the USA. He came into the country of his own free will and was arrested on his way out.
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Considering a lot of what they are saying and implying, I can understand why McDonalds's is suing. Lets start with McDonald's is directly involved in this economic imperialism, which keeps most black people poor and hungry while many whites grow fat. Hmm... like I've never seen a black person eat at Mics before nor a skiny white guy.
It's called the Ministry of the Interior.
Just remember, It's those FDA restrictions (which I assume you mean as opposed to USDA which is the Department of Agriculture) that kept Thalidomide from being as widely used in the US as it was in Europe.
I personally wonder what they would do for the comanies that have to buy computers for business. We are looking at purchasing a $16,000 computer (no typo) for one purpose only, and that is cheap compared to some of what we do here. Are we going to have to pay an aditional $160 for music artists? That $160 isn't much compared to the price of the machine, but it stacks up when compared to the number we generally purchase over a few years. And in the next year we are looking at purchasing several hundred several thousand dollar computers as well. None of which will be used by individuals. Total cost? In the millions. I see no reason for the RIAA to get tens of thousands of dollars for servers that nobody is going to have music or personal files on.
I can pretty much garuntee taht that brochure cost less than $7.50, probably closer to $1 or $2 at most, plus international postage. That brochure is mass produced and designed from a template. Not customized or anything.
On a side note, If your native language is not english, was the note/is the IEEE in your native language? I am curious if the IEEE translates articles into other languages (as that woul increase their cost of publishing).
Hanging: get this one wrong, so the rope snaps or the support breaks, and you end up a vegetable lying on a bed for the rest of your life. Also very unpleasant suffocation or broken neck.
If you get it wrong, you could also wind up having your head seperated from your body. Too long a rope, you sever your head, too short, you sufficate, just right, you break your neck and that is it.
Depends on what law is being broken and why. If you violate an NDA to report something such as a company that is doing illegal dumping or something that is illegal, the whistleblower is protected. This part has been tested in court multiple times.
If you violate an NDA to disclose a companies business plans that in no way harm anyone (other than competing businesses), that is what this case is about.
If you break an NDA and in the process cause harm, without there being any public good involved... Well, with reference to that CIA(?) agent whose name was disclosed, that's still in court but apparently not. (Case still in appeals process, though. Expect it to go before the US Supreme Court.)
There are several different cases of this, each with a different reason behind it. The protections clauses are still (apparently) being decided over what should be protected and what shouldn't. Personally, I am curious about how different the think secret case is from Industrial Espionage, other than think secret not personally gaining money or working for another company. Course, they may be making prestige and money from links and they might be considered a company themselves but that is for another discussion.