The proposed law contains an exception for businesses with fewer than 200 transactions or a total value less than $10,000.
I don't read that as a person with 200 transactions or less and I also don't read it as a person doing less that $10,000 in transactions.
I read that as businesses don't have to report if the business does less than $10,000 in transactions or less than 200 transactions. The article doesn't say whether that is over the life of the business or a day. What kind of business doesn't do at least $10,000 in business in a month or over the course of the life of the business?
My current VOIP settings allow me to filter by number, and dump callers to busy signal, msg, blocked message, etc. I have about 20 numbers in my list right now. And I add a new number about once a month. Not too bad.
This whole discussion is based on your definition of stupidity or intelligence. If your definition of intelligence is being able to recall every detail or fact from memory then, yes google is making us stupid.
If, however, your definition of intelligence is the ability to reason and come up with solutions to problems with the information at hand then google is making us all the smarter.
I do find that sometimes I've forgotten how to spell a rarely used word, so in that respect I do feel like I lost something. Does that mean I'm going to stop using spell check? Hell no. I forget some linux commands sometimes too, but once I start using them again it all comes flooding back. Btw tab is fracking awesome.
Even when I buy a new computer to use windows or dual boot, I blow away the preinstalled version and install an OEM version of XP pro. Then I install linux too. Removing the preinstalled version usually fixes alot of bugs. If the dell xps laptops came with linux I would buy one just to be sure everything was supported. oh wait i just found out they do. I guess I'll buy one. Dude, I'm gettin a DELL!
Not necessarily, a scar can change your fingerprint. Mine has changed more than once. So, all he has to do is slice open the finger, wait for it to heal and re-enroll. Should take a month tops. Where's that knife?
I'd just like to point out that you two are talking about two different things. you are charged by the watt-hour whereas power plants measure in watts. one is over a unit of time, one is instantaneous. I use about a megawatt-hour per month. Turkey point unit 4 produces 735 megawatts every instant. The heat output is three times that. Producing energy will be very inefficient until we figure out how to pump steam.
The condensers which would be how you would get your heat into the ocean can only handle a 50% load reject, they're doing that right now and we're also using steam dump to atmosphere.
Actually both units are still shutdown in hot standby. They rods are in all the way and we are still at temperature and pressure. At least as of when I left at 8:30 this morning, but that's because of other reasons. We are using this unplanned shutdown to fix a couple things that can only be fixed when shutdown. As each day the reactor is shutdown costs about 1 million in fossil fuels to replace the energy produced; they don't shutdown until absolutely necessary. Unit 4 is about to go into an outage anyway, so there was some speculation as to whether we would have enough left to startup without worrying about poisons, but we already had a sno(short notice outage) so there's plenty of fuel left in the pot so to speak. As for the reactor being xenon poisoned just because it's lost load... I'm pretty sure he's full of shit. If there's no where for the power to go then you've got to shut down. If you didn't then yes the turbine would overspeed and wipe a bearing or fuck itself up. Just the overspeed condition would draw more power from the reactor and it would cause a rise in reactivity. Even though we lost power we still had battery backup banks and 4 emergency diesel generators that are up within 10 seconds. The Reactor Coolant pumps are weighted to make sure they have enough momentum if they lose power for a few seconds.
First off, There are not 5 nuclear reactors at turkey point. there are 5 units. units 1 and 2 are oil and natural gas(fossil) units 3 and 4 are nuclear and unit 5 is a gas turbine unit. The shutdown of the reactors DID NOT cause the blackout contrary to what the slashdot summary says. A failed switch and fire at an electrical substation outside Miami(read: not at the power plant) caused the grid to go into an imbalanced state at which time the plant experianced a loop(loss of offsite power) and did what they are supposed to do. There was no place for the power to go, so they shutdown to stop making it. All the power plants did what they were supposed to do. The fossils were presumably shut down. I'll find out more when I get to work. great, now i'm gonna be late.
How could you seriously not realize the difference between a liquid and a gas? CO2 gas is lighter than liquid and dirt or clay or rock. why the hell would it stay underground. that's like trying to make a beach ball stay under water at the pool. It's already been proven that pumping gas or liquid into a place where it's not supposed to be cause seismic instability. are you really so stupid? Do me a favor and take your computer back to the store.
I work in a nuclear power plant. What about when I'm at work and walk through a radiation area. Is my phone going to flip out? You can walk through a radiation area and not get contaminated. So it's no big deal to take my phone in. I've only gotten about 25 millirem this year. just for reference, you get about 1000 millirem from a single cat scan.
I voted with my money and bought a Toshiba HD-DVD player. It was 300 bucks. Yes, I know I could have bought a ps3. I don't want one.
I want alot of cool stuff that sony sells, but until they decide to stop fucking their customers I won't buy anything from them.
It does piss me off that I can't buy certain movies in HD though. But my hd-dvd player will upconvert them so that they're almost as good, and YES I can see a difference. because I have a 50 inch tv.
Someone should drain the blood from all the sony execs. They'd probably keep right on living since they're heartless bastards anyway. Then the company should be dissolved and the proceeds given to the Ron Paul Campaign fund. Die sony, wither away and DIE!
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The proposed law contains an exception for businesses with fewer than 200 transactions or a total value less than $10,000.
I don't read that as a person with 200 transactions or less and I also don't read it as a person doing less that $10,000 in transactions.
I read that as businesses don't have to report if the business does less than $10,000 in transactions or less than 200 transactions. The article doesn't say whether that is over the life of the business or a day. What kind of business doesn't do at least $10,000 in business in a month or over the course of the life of the business?
My current VOIP settings allow me to filter by number, and dump callers to busy signal, msg, blocked message, etc. I have about 20 numbers in my list right now. And I add a new number about once a month. Not too bad.
What service is that?can it receive or send pictures to other phones and back like other phones could 4 years ago? does it have ssh? if so then i might buy one.
This whole discussion is based on your definition of stupidity or intelligence. If your definition of intelligence is being able to recall every detail or fact from memory then, yes google is making us stupid.
If, however, your definition of intelligence is the ability to reason and come up with solutions to problems with the information at hand then google is making us all the smarter.
I do find that sometimes I've forgotten how to spell a rarely used word, so in that respect I do feel like I lost something. Does that mean I'm going to stop using spell check? Hell no. I forget some linux commands sometimes too, but once I start using them again it all comes flooding back. Btw tab is fracking awesome.
Even when I buy a new computer to use windows or dual boot, I blow away the preinstalled version and install an OEM version of XP pro. Then I install linux too. Removing the preinstalled version usually fixes alot of bugs. If the dell xps laptops came with linux I would buy one just to be sure everything was supported. oh wait i just found out they do. I guess I'll buy one. Dude, I'm gettin a DELL!
uh.... msconfig?
uh, yeah. where have you been? under a rock?
What if I don't want my medical data to to "universally accessible"?
Not necessarily, a scar can change your fingerprint. Mine has changed more than once. So, all he has to do is slice open the finger, wait for it to heal and re-enroll. Should take a month tops. Where's that knife?
Yeah, but that condom doesn't make firefox take 15 min to open up.
Jane? Is that you?
I'd just like to point out that you two are talking about two different things. you are charged by the watt-hour whereas power plants measure in watts. one is over a unit of time, one is instantaneous. I use about a megawatt-hour per month. Turkey point unit 4 produces 735 megawatts every instant. The heat output is three times that. Producing energy will be very inefficient until we figure out how to pump steam.
The condensers which would be how you would get your heat into the ocean can only handle a 50% load reject, they're doing that right now and we're also using steam dump to atmosphere.
Actually both units are still shutdown in hot standby. They rods are in all the way and we are still at temperature and pressure. At least as of when I left at 8:30 this morning, but that's because of other reasons. We are using this unplanned shutdown to fix a couple things that can only be fixed when shutdown. As each day the reactor is shutdown costs about 1 million in fossil fuels to replace the energy produced; they don't shutdown until absolutely necessary. Unit 4 is about to go into an outage anyway, so there was some speculation as to whether we would have enough left to startup without worrying about poisons, but we already had a sno(short notice outage) so there's plenty of fuel left in the pot so to speak. As for the reactor being xenon poisoned just because it's lost load... I'm pretty sure he's full of shit. If there's no where for the power to go then you've got to shut down. If you didn't then yes the turbine would overspeed and wipe a bearing or fuck itself up. Just the overspeed condition would draw more power from the reactor and it would cause a rise in reactivity. Even though we lost power we still had battery backup banks and 4 emergency diesel generators that are up within 10 seconds. The Reactor Coolant pumps are weighted to make sure they have enough momentum if they lose power for a few seconds.
First off, There are not 5 nuclear reactors at turkey point. there are 5 units. units 1 and 2 are oil and natural gas(fossil) units 3 and 4 are nuclear and unit 5 is a gas turbine unit. The shutdown of the reactors DID NOT cause the blackout contrary to what the slashdot summary says. A failed switch and fire at an electrical substation outside Miami(read: not at the power plant) caused the grid to go into an imbalanced state at which time the plant experianced a loop(loss of offsite power) and did what they are supposed to do. There was no place for the power to go, so they shutdown to stop making it. All the power plants did what they were supposed to do. The fossils were presumably shut down. I'll find out more when I get to work. great, now i'm gonna be late.
They can't turn off their Iphones. Damn you steve jobs, WHY?!?!??
That's Golf right?
How could you seriously not realize the difference between a liquid and a gas? CO2 gas is lighter than liquid and dirt or clay or rock. why the hell would it stay underground. that's like trying to make a beach ball stay under water at the pool. It's already been proven that pumping gas or liquid into a place where it's not supposed to be cause seismic instability. are you really so stupid? Do me a favor and take your computer back to the store.
What? You never watched GI Jane? I believe they were going in after 12 lbs of weapons grade naquadah uh, I mean uranium.
I work in a nuclear power plant. What about when I'm at work and walk through a radiation area. Is my phone going to flip out? You can walk through a radiation area and not get contaminated. So it's no big deal to take my phone in. I've only gotten about 25 millirem this year. just for reference, you get about 1000 millirem from a single cat scan.
Of course it's secure. Everytime you try to do anything you get the bsod.
Too late. It's already here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU&feature=related
it'd be pretty hard to get a vacuum cleaner to do anything in a..... vacuum.
I voted with my money and bought a Toshiba HD-DVD player. It was 300 bucks. Yes, I know I could have bought a ps3. I don't want one.
I want alot of cool stuff that sony sells, but until they decide to stop fucking their customers I won't buy anything from them.
It does piss me off that I can't buy certain movies in HD though. But my hd-dvd player will upconvert them so that they're almost as good, and YES I can see a difference. because I have a 50 inch tv.
Someone should drain the blood from all the sony execs. They'd probably keep right on living since they're heartless bastards anyway. Then the company should be dissolved and the proceeds given to the Ron Paul Campaign fund. Die sony, wither away and DIE!