Yes, you can go to France and employ people easily provided you do not break any French laws, like not paying them enough. France has laws yet employers still discriminate based on things like your last name. For examples, if it doesn't sound French, you will not get a job.
Anyway, I don't know WTF you are talking about. You can go to France and start a business just like you can start a business in US.
Income taxes, and taxes in general are there to reduce monetary supply. Gov't, though the Fed, increase monetary supply. To make things balance and so *your* money retain value, there are taxes. Without taxes, USD would get railroaded.
Why should I work my ass off to make more money, and increase demand for employees, if I have to pay more taxes on what I make? That's robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Utter bullshit. It is called disposable income. If you earn $20k/year you will spend that money for local stuff because you have to live. If you earn $300k/year, you will not spend all of the money on necessities of life! You can afford to subsidize services that the $20k/year person uses.
And it is utter BULLSHIT to say that $20k/year works 15 times less than a $300k/year employee. By that definition, wouldn't the bankers earning $20m/year work 1000x times more than teh $20k/year concrete worker?
Your salary is not an absolute gauge of your input labor! The $20k/year concrete worker or a farmer that manager to just stay afloat may be working 1000x more than a $2 million a year trust funder, yet you would rather support that trust funder and kick the farmer and the concrete worker in the ass because they are not working enough for their services (ie. paying less taxes then services they get). Sorry mate. Rich people don't really care how much taxes they pay. Only the "I want to be rich too but I am not so I will blame government for it" people care.
"Those people, who do not feel any pain at all, usually die before they turn 25"
"A lot of parents would be happy to have a baby, who does not wake them up at night."..."When Ashlyn's teeth started growing at the age of six months, the girl shredded her own lips with them."
âoeSome people would say thatâ(TM)s a good thing. But no, itâ(TM)s not,â says Tara Blocker, Ashlynâ(TM)s mother. âoePainâ(TM)s there for a reason. It lets your body know somethingâ(TM)s wrong and it needs to be fixed. Iâ(TM)d give anything for her to feel pain.â
The untreatable disease also makes Ashlyn incapable of sensing extreme temperatures â" hot or cold â" disabling her bodyâ(TM)s ability to cool itself by sweating. Otherwise, her senses are normal.
Harper's politics in a minority are not his politics if he had a majority. Plain and simple.
At least I can say that Joe Clark had balls. I would vote for Joe Clark just because I know what the guy brought to the table based on his proposed budget. On the other hand, Harper just wants to manipulate public opinion to get majority. Then his real self will come out. Just look at his first appointments to the cabinet - a never-ever elected buddy he appointed to the senate just so he can make him a minister!!
I would not vote for someone like Harper because he's a megalomaniac. No one in his caucus dares to fart without his permission, never mind talk openly.
Trudeau had some shitty ideas about governance. But Harper is even worse.
then we have a whole slew of satellites for observing sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon and Mars. Just go to nasa.gov for overview. There is also that fast flyby by Pluto - the only planet not yet observed closely.
Yes, because the current system of "Sorry, the procedure recommended by your doctor was not deemed appropriate by Accountant #24 of your health insurance. We wish you luck with your blocked arteries. The procedure would result in more payout from us than we can recoup from you. Oh, and we can't renew your insurance for next year if you still live. Cheerios!"
Old, crappy systems gets maintenance and continue to function, barely. What's next? Donuts have fat in them? People die of heart attacks?
It doesn't matter if what they have is old or can be now made with rails or whatnot. It matters that it does the job. And you examples of failure have nothing to do with website. They have to do with how data is stored on the backend. And if people are not reporting their data, how is it the fault of the website???
Garbage in = garbage out. All data management systems can only report the data that they have, not the data that they should have or ought to have.
# of Tesla GPUs 4 # of Streaming Processor Cores 960 (240 per processor) Frequency of processor cores 1.296 to 1.44 GHz Single Precision floating point performance (peak) 3.73 to 4.14 TFlops Double Precision floating point performance (peak) 311 to 345 GFlops Floating Point Precision IEEE 754 single & double Total Dedicated Memory 16 GB Memory Interface 512-bit Memory Bandwidth 408 GB/sec Max Power Consumption 800 W System Interface PCIe x16 or x8 Software Development Tools C-based CUDA Toolkit
Maybe point your quantum mechanics simulations people to HPC specific nVidia solutions, not commodity hardware not designed for HPC (ie. no RAM, limited cores, etc.)
It is really sad when these deniers bring out Mars as their joker card when they are talking about Global Warming. Just few years ago they were saying that there is not enough data on EARTH to even say that EARTH was warming. But given one or two data points on other planet from REMOTE INDIRECT OBSERVATION and they launch themselves to conclusions about it.
It is sad that these people justify their positions by their "beliefs" without knowing or understanding any data.
Is it SO difficult to go to the library, you know, sit down and read the temperature read some books about expeditions to the arctic? Number of people that died trying to conquer it?? Now we have people kayaking to the damn north pole!!
160kbps for uncompressed voice, both ways (combined bandwidth). That's 20kB/s. If you talk 24/7, that is about 50 GB/month. If you talk only about 5 hours a day, your monthly bandwidth usage will be whopping 10GB.
Now, if you compress your connection, for example 1/2 the bandwidth (like regular analog phones lines do), 5h/day => 5GB/month.
And if you compress with GSM or SpeakX, you'll probably be under 1GB/mo, talking 5 hour a day without silent suppressor!
Green space *inside* a building like that is not a good idea.
You can place a city building like that in middle of 100 or 200 square km of "playround" space (maybe even farmer fields with bike paths, waterways, etc). The greenspace does not have to be inside, but it has to be readily accessible.
Now, if you place this giant building INSIDE a current city, it could be a disaster. You end up with another giant building in place where recreational space is at premium. The idea is for the giant building to feel like a cottage (get outside city by elevator + walking) where outside is essentially "park land"
I hate suburbs and city living, basically because of the noise. But a city like this building *could* work for me, if that building was the city.
You see, if you have a quiet space and ability to get to places without *cars*, quickly and quietly, that's the panacea of city design.
A city that size could easily have 100 or 200 square km of "playground" around it for people to enjoy sports of all kinds. Heck, you can have cycling tracks through fields used to feed the city!
Close proximity living is generally a problem because of *noise* pollution caused by cars and trucks and similar delivery vehicles. You remove that noise, you remove most of the problems.
Close proximity living is only a problem if one can't escape it. When you feel stifled and trapped inside it, problems happen.
Come on people! This is not the 1960s! The extremists DO NOT want to take over a plane. They just want to "martyr" themselves for their afterlife "virgins".
I mean, if this is not an example how polygamy can screw up a population, I do not know one.
where there are no security checks to get on board and the only security measures are to detect when a plane has been hijacked and once confirmed a killswitch is activated to simply blow it out of the sky. Might have to pay the pilots more but I'd travel on one of those.
give every able adult a weapon upon boarding, they'll have plenty of incentive to deal with any problems.
Really? These latest comments here have got to come from some more shortsighted members of slashdot crowd.
So, you would allow anything on the plane? No security checks because you can't hijack it anyway?
I suspect that all the "islamic" extrimists really like your idea as well. They do not have to conceil their explosives anymore. They just have to bring a granade or two with them. Then they can "gloriously" blow the plane up and get their "900 virgins" (or whatever the number they came up this week).
What? So, we need the SSN or DL number of Osama bin Laden now?
Name searching, as weird as it may sound to some DB people, is one of the most reliable ways to match record to person. Sure, you *want* to have additional information to know that you have the correct Sammy Smith, but you have to start with the name.
Of course, this is aside the fact that DNFL was a stupid idea. An idea brought as a *reaction* to 9/11 so politicians could point at it and say how much they are protecting the public. A list that in fact would do nothing to prevent 9/11 in the first place.
It is only complicated for small structures, like that one in the video. Small, concrete structures.
WTC was huge by comparison. And it is steel.
Steel does NOT like being compressed. Steel only works through tension. Compression - bad for steel. Concrete, on other hand, does not like bending, but will take HELL of a lot of compression. The building pictured is steel/concrete so tough -> not easy to break and too small to pancake by itself.
This is why reinforced concrete structures are difficult to take down. You have to plan ahead, weaken support walls. Heck, put dynamite in support walls.
In a steel structure, you take out the foundation, and rest basically goes straight down. But because of risks of stuff flying around and ease of taking steel apart, steel buildings are generally taken down piece by piece, from top down. No explosions needed to take them out.
And please, don't compare crappily built, small buildings to large steel sky scrappers.
For an example, do the following. Get bunch of paperback books (you know, 400-1000 pages each) and stack 12 of them. Then push them over. They will end up all over the place.
Now, build a stack 100 books (ok, 60+ should do). Now, push at the 30th book from the bottom. Do they continue to tip over like the 12th story high structure? Probably not.
Farmer's in the US area already subsidized enormously. And bio-fuels is the largest subsidy of all time - subsidy that allows them to side-step the global economic talks because it is not a direct subsidy.
And guess what? $8 loaf of bread? If that was 1 kg bread, so about 2 pounds, that means flour would cost close to $4000/ton !!! (50% of wheat, because of excess discarded, guessing)
The cost of bread has VERY LITTLE to do with prices farmers get. Not in the western societies. Farmers get paid next to nothing to overproduce then the middle man grabs most of the profits.
At $400/ton for wheat, then even if your recovery from wheat => flour is 50%, this would mean 1 lb. bread would cost $0.40 (40 cents for Verizon employees). So why is bread 5+x that and they justify "grain costs" for increase?
Bullshit!
100% increase in grain prices would have meant 20 cents increase in bread prices, MAX. But then everyone wants to blame those greedy farmers.
Point your little finger at oil companies and greedy middle man for the bread price, not farmers. Not until I see $5000/ton wheat.
House prices are a result of stupid people and cheap loans.
You see, stupid people DO NOT look at a house as 200,000, or 300,000. They cannot comprehend those numbers. They just look at what their 50-year mortgage is going to cost at *current* (low) rates. So, they figure, $1500/mo for a house is not a bad deal.
Now, stupid people would *not* have ability to get these loans if it wasn't for stupidly greedy bankers. They figure housing prices will keep going up 10%+ a year so even if the owner defaults, they'll make money.
And this is not even touching the subprime market where lying (by mortgage lenders) and complacency in those lies (by home buyers) created that mess.
Of course, can you build a cheaper house? Yes, if it wasn't for the greedy contractors that would charge $5000 to paint a house (less than half week's work). But then again, current generation can't change their car's oil, not to mention paint a house.
But most of the mess is because people would fail grade school math test. Where a 40 year house is worth as much (per sq. ft.) as a new house. I mean, give me a break!
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Yes, you can go to France and employ people easily provided you do not break any French laws, like not paying them enough. France has laws yet employers still discriminate based on things like your last name. For examples, if it doesn't sound French, you will not get a job.
Anyway, I don't know WTF you are talking about. You can go to France and start a business just like you can start a business in US.
Income taxes, and taxes in general are there to reduce monetary supply. Gov't, though the Fed, increase monetary supply. To make things balance and so *your* money retain value, there are taxes. Without taxes, USD would get railroaded.
Why should I work my ass off to make more money, and increase demand for employees, if I have to pay more taxes on what I make? That's robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Utter bullshit. It is called disposable income. If you earn $20k/year you will spend that money for local stuff because you have to live. If you earn $300k/year, you will not spend all of the money on necessities of life! You can afford to subsidize services that the $20k/year person uses.
And it is utter BULLSHIT to say that $20k/year works 15 times less than a $300k/year employee. By that definition, wouldn't the bankers earning $20m/year work 1000x times more than teh $20k/year concrete worker?
Your salary is not an absolute gauge of your input labor! The $20k/year concrete worker or a farmer that manager to just stay afloat may be working 1000x more than a $2 million a year trust funder, yet you would rather support that trust funder and kick the farmer and the concrete worker in the ass because they are not working enough for their services (ie. paying less taxes then services they get). Sorry mate. Rich people don't really care how much taxes they pay. Only the "I want to be rich too but I am not so I will blame government for it" people care.
You are a complete moron to not even being able to google stuff like this before forming your opinion in 2 seconds.
No pain is a very serious genetic disorder.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/42140.php
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/01/27/rare.conditions/index.html
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14726_pain.html
"Those people, who do not feel any pain at all, usually die before they turn 25"
"A lot of parents would be happy to have a baby, who does not wake them up at night."..."When Ashlyn's teeth started growing at the age of six months, the girl shredded her own lips with them."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6379795/
âoeSome people would say thatâ(TM)s a good thing. But no, itâ(TM)s not,â says Tara Blocker, Ashlynâ(TM)s mother. âoePainâ(TM)s there for a reason. It lets your body know somethingâ(TM)s wrong and it needs to be fixed. Iâ(TM)d give anything for her to feel pain.â
The untreatable disease also makes Ashlyn incapable of sensing extreme temperatures â" hot or cold â" disabling her bodyâ(TM)s ability to cool itself by sweating. Otherwise, her senses are normal.
So yes, your opinion is quite stupid.
Harper's politics in a minority are not his politics if he had a majority. Plain and simple.
At least I can say that Joe Clark had balls. I would vote for Joe Clark just because I know what the guy brought to the table based on his proposed budget. On the other hand, Harper just wants to manipulate public opinion to get majority. Then his real self will come out. Just look at his first appointments to the cabinet - a never-ever elected buddy he appointed to the senate just so he can make him a minister!!
I would not vote for someone like Harper because he's a megalomaniac. No one in his caucus dares to fart without his permission, never mind talk openly.
Trudeau had some shitty ideas about governance. But Harper is even worse.
Exactly. Plus you are missing a few,
Galileo - Jupiter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)
Cassini & Huigens - Saturn & its moon titan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiniâ"Huygens
Spirit & Opportunity - Mars landers
then we have a whole slew of satellites for observing sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon and Mars. Just go to nasa.gov for overview. There is also that fast flyby by Pluto - the only planet not yet observed closely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
I think you are referring to Standard Model?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
No particles "created" there. Just because you don't understand the basic idea there is not the physic's or universe's fault.
Yes, because the current system of "Sorry, the procedure recommended by your doctor was not deemed appropriate by Accountant #24 of your health insurance. We wish you luck with your blocked arteries. The procedure would result in more payout from us than we can recoup from you. Oh, and we can't renew your insurance for next year if you still live. Cheerios!"
Old, crappy systems gets maintenance and continue to function, barely. What's next? Donuts have fat in them? People die of heart attacks?
It doesn't matter if what they have is old or can be now made with rails or whatnot. It matters that it does the job. And you examples of failure have nothing to do with website. They have to do with how data is stored on the backend. And if people are not reporting their data, how is it the fault of the website???
Garbage in = garbage out. All data management systems can only report the data that they have, not the data that they should have or ought to have.
Look at nVidia's website. They already provide HPC solutions,
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/preconfigured_clusters.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tesla_s1070_us.html
# of Tesla GPUs 4
# of Streaming Processor Cores 960 (240 per processor)
Frequency of processor cores 1.296 to 1.44 GHz
Single Precision floating point performance (peak) 3.73 to 4.14 TFlops
Double Precision floating point performance (peak) 311 to 345 GFlops
Floating Point Precision IEEE 754 single & double
Total Dedicated Memory 16 GB
Memory Interface 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth 408 GB/sec
Max Power Consumption 800 W
System Interface PCIe x16 or x8
Software Development Tools C-based CUDA Toolkit
Maybe point your quantum mechanics simulations people to HPC specific nVidia solutions, not commodity hardware not designed for HPC (ie. no RAM, limited cores, etc.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7585645.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7588329.stm
Yes, stay in your magic fluff land in-spite of reality.
1. It is global. Not regional. Arctic is continuing to warm despite "cold in my area" bull.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7585645.stm
2. We know *SHIT* about mars climate.
3. Solar output is monitored.
It is really sad when these deniers bring out Mars as their joker card when they are talking about Global Warming. Just few years ago they were saying that there is not enough data on EARTH to even say that EARTH was warming. But given one or two data points on other planet from REMOTE INDIRECT OBSERVATION and they launch themselves to conclusions about it.
It is sad that these people justify their positions by their "beliefs" without knowing or understanding any data.
Is it SO difficult to go to the library, you know, sit down and read the temperature read some books about expeditions to the arctic? Number of people that died trying to conquer it?? Now we have people kayaking to the damn north pole!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7588329.stm
But no, there is no global warming. The ice just "went because god made it so"
You are a fucking moron.
Or just a proxy so you don't have to mirror the entire archive??
So, don't exceed the limit.
160kbps for uncompressed voice, both ways (combined bandwidth). That's 20kB/s. If you talk 24/7, that is about 50 GB/month. If you talk only about 5 hours a day, your monthly bandwidth usage will be whopping 10GB.
Now, if you compress your connection, for example 1/2 the bandwidth (like regular analog phones lines do), 5h/day => 5GB/month.
And if you compress with GSM or SpeakX, you'll probably be under 1GB/mo, talking 5 hour a day without silent suppressor!
Yeah! Now if I hook up the line and "share" with my entire apartment building that has 400 suites, well, I'll run out of this limit too!
This is no way enough!!
Rip Off!! /sarcasm
Green space *inside* a building like that is not a good idea.
You can place a city building like that in middle of 100 or 200 square km of "playround" space (maybe even farmer fields with bike paths, waterways, etc). The greenspace does not have to be inside, but it has to be readily accessible.
Now, if you place this giant building INSIDE a current city, it could be a disaster. You end up with another giant building in place where recreational space is at premium. The idea is for the giant building to feel like a cottage (get outside city by elevator + walking) where outside is essentially "park land"
I hate suburbs and city living, basically because of the noise. But a city like this building *could* work for me, if that building was the city.
You see, if you have a quiet space and ability to get to places without *cars*, quickly and quietly, that's the panacea of city design.
A city that size could easily have 100 or 200 square km of "playground" around it for people to enjoy sports of all kinds. Heck, you can have cycling tracks through fields used to feed the city!
Close proximity living is generally a problem because of *noise* pollution caused by cars and trucks and similar delivery vehicles. You remove that noise, you remove most of the problems.
Close proximity living is only a problem if one can't escape it. When you feel stifled and trapped inside it, problems happen.
How about terrorists just use a grenade?
Come on people! This is not the 1960s! The extremists DO NOT want to take over a plane. They just want to "martyr" themselves for their afterlife "virgins".
I mean, if this is not an example how polygamy can screw up a population, I do not know one.
Really? These latest comments here have got to come from some more shortsighted members of slashdot crowd.
So, you would allow anything on the plane? No security checks because you can't hijack it anyway?
I suspect that all the "islamic" extrimists really like your idea as well. They do not have to conceil their explosives anymore. They just have to bring a granade or two with them. Then they can "gloriously" blow the plane up and get their "900 virgins" (or whatever the number they came up this week).
What? So, we need the SSN or DL number of Osama bin Laden now?
Name searching, as weird as it may sound to some DB people, is one of the most reliable ways to match record to person. Sure, you *want* to have additional information to know that you have the correct Sammy Smith, but you have to start with the name.
Of course, this is aside the fact that DNFL was a stupid idea. An idea brought as a *reaction* to 9/11 so politicians could point at it and say how much they are protecting the public. A list that in fact would do nothing to prevent 9/11 in the first place.
Now who's the flat earther? Apollo, Soyuz, Shuttle, Mercury. Need to name more?
As for extra-terrestrials, I think your statement may be premature. Kind of like saying that there cannot be any 2 headed snakes, yet,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycephaly
It is only complicated for small structures, like that one in the video. Small, concrete structures.
WTC was huge by comparison. And it is steel.
Steel does NOT like being compressed. Steel only works through tension. Compression - bad for steel. Concrete, on other hand, does not like bending, but will take HELL of a lot of compression. The building pictured is steel/concrete so tough -> not easy to break and too small to pancake by itself.
This is why reinforced concrete structures are difficult to take down. You have to plan ahead, weaken support walls. Heck, put dynamite in support walls.
In a steel structure, you take out the foundation, and rest basically goes straight down. But because of risks of stuff flying around and ease of taking steel apart, steel buildings are generally taken down piece by piece, from top down. No explosions needed to take them out.
And please, don't compare crappily built, small buildings to large steel sky scrappers.
For an example, do the following. Get bunch of paperback books (you know, 400-1000 pages each) and stack 12 of them. Then push them over. They will end up all over the place.
Now, build a stack 100 books (ok, 60+ should do). Now, push at the 30th book from the bottom. Do they continue to tip over like the 12th story high structure? Probably not.
Bullshit!
Farmer's in the US area already subsidized enormously. And bio-fuels is the largest subsidy of all time - subsidy that allows them to side-step the global economic talks because it is not a direct subsidy.
http://farm.ewg.org/farm/regionsummary.php?fips=00000
And guess what? $8 loaf of bread? If that was 1 kg bread, so about 2 pounds, that means flour would cost close to $4000/ton !!! (50% of wheat, because of excess discarded, guessing)
The cost of bread has VERY LITTLE to do with prices farmers get. Not in the western societies. Farmers get paid next to nothing to overproduce then the middle man grabs most of the profits.
At $400/ton for wheat, then even if your recovery from wheat => flour is 50%, this would mean 1 lb. bread would cost $0.40 (40 cents for Verizon employees). So why is bread 5+x that and they justify "grain costs" for increase?
Bullshit!
100% increase in grain prices would have meant 20 cents increase in bread prices, MAX. But then everyone wants to blame those greedy farmers.
Point your little finger at oil companies and greedy middle man for the bread price, not farmers. Not until I see $5000/ton wheat.
House prices are a result of stupid people and cheap loans.
You see, stupid people DO NOT look at a house as 200,000, or 300,000. They cannot comprehend those numbers. They just look at what their 50-year mortgage is going to cost at *current* (low) rates. So, they figure, $1500/mo for a house is not a bad deal.
Now, stupid people would *not* have ability to get these loans if it wasn't for stupidly greedy bankers. They figure housing prices will keep going up 10%+ a year so even if the owner defaults, they'll make money.
And this is not even touching the subprime market where lying (by mortgage lenders) and complacency in those lies (by home buyers) created that mess.
Of course, can you build a cheaper house? Yes, if it wasn't for the greedy contractors that would charge $5000 to paint a house (less than half week's work). But then again, current generation can't change their car's oil, not to mention paint a house.
But most of the mess is because people would fail grade school math test. Where a 40 year house is worth as much (per sq. ft.) as a new house. I mean, give me a break!
The point it, people dump it and it end up in your water supply. It's all about numbers.
CO2 emission is harmless from 1, or even 100,000 cars. But, if you have 1,000,000,000 vehicles on the roads, and CO2 s no longer harmless.
Not all copyright holders are cackling billionaire bastards.
Of course this is true. Just look at how many copyright holders release their work under GPL, LGPL, Artistic and similarly open terms.