Dude, you seriously need to fire your accountant. Nobody pays 50% income tax any more. I'm sure it was withheld at 50%; which would cover fed and state taxes with no deductions, with a bit of room to spare. That's how they withhold for lottery winnings, too. If you're actually taxed at 50%, then your accountant is indeed a moron, or you're unwilling to do even the simplest things to lower your taxes (like contribute to an IRA, etc.)
If you make the bacteria "shit" some form of oil, or very long chain alcohol, it will rise to the surface and you can just skim off the good stuff.
Another note: In my experience growing bacteria in the lab, most small scale production isn't limited by feedstock, it's limited by pH. Bacteria acidify their media as they grow, and eventually that halts the growth. The "high efficiency" growth stocks don't add more "feed", they have buffers for pH. I'm sure that this is taken care of in large-scale production runs, but if you're planning on trying this at home, keep the pH in mind.
I'd say if lab work is truly glamorous, you're probably doing it wrong. It's usually a lot of work. A good chunk of the time, it doesn't work. Sometimes it is fun, but in my experience, real honest to god lab work is never going to get you a cable special. Lab DEMOS, where you're demonstrating work that's been done dozens of times, and perfected to the point of flawlessness, can be somewhat glamorous. But the real work isn't for show.
ESR generated tissue needs all kinds of fine chemical control to be made to work almost-right, and then the new host rejects it and needs immune system suppression drugs It won't reject it if it's cloned. Take an adult cell, clone it to make an early stage embryo, then harvest the stem cells. That's the "therapeutic cloning" angle.
If you're in a warmer climate, try bird-crap and bugs. Try driving down I-5 from Redding to Sacramento CA in the late spring sometime. Bugs coming at you like a freakin' hailstorm. Grasshoppers, dragonflies... Big juicy bugs that leave splats. Or, if you're relay lucky, you might get hit by a stray tomato flying off a truck. Let's see a nano-wiper sweep away that!
Old joke: Ask a math teacher, how much does five plus five equal, they say "10". Ask a hollywood accountant, they'll close the blinds, shut the door, and whisper "How much do you want it to be?"
Did anyone else notice her say, "and the cops checked my house for me"?
They didn't check it for HER. They checked it for them- to see if they could find drugs. It's nice they didn't taser her a few times, just in case she was dangerous.
Okay, so your one example is that one type of RFID works at about an inch. And you imply that this is the only type of RFID that anyone is concerned with.
So, how the hell is that useful for Wal-Mart, in tagging pallets? Having done inventory in a warehouse before in my mis-spent youth, I can tell you that on a pallet (wrapped in shrink wrap, stacked three high), an RFID tag that only read at one inch (or even six inches) would be completely useless. Pretty much the same usefulness as a bar-code sticker, or a metal tag with an embossed number. Those Wal-mart people must be morons to insist that their suppliers include tags on shipping pallets that cant be read from more than an inch away.
But, since you insist, there must not be any other kind of RFID. I'll go edit the wikipedia entry now. It's obviously written by a conspiracy nut.
Passive tags have practical read distances ranging from about 10 cm (4 in.) (ISO 14443) up to a few meters (Electronic Product Code (EPC) and ISO 18000-6), depending on the chosen radio frequency and antenna design/size. Due to their simplicity in design they are also suitable for manufacture with a printing process for the antennas. The lack of an onboard power supply means that the device can be quite small: commercially available products exist that can be embedded in a sticker, or under the skin in the case of low frequency RFID tags.
The feds should do what they do for hospitals... reimburse companies who bring on young fresh out of college IT staff and send them through a rigorous OTJ training course. Good luck with that. "The Feds" don't really do such a hot job at that these days; a lot of traditional teaching hospitals are going broke really fast. The Federal money coming in is mostly for Medicaid patients; that money doesn't even cover actual costs. Medical students and residents are still a source of cheap labor (relative to post-residency MD's), and they can be coerced into working horrible hours. But there's no lovely gravy train of fed money. I'm sure that you'd have even less luck getting money to hire IT staff.
From the friendly Wikipedia article on PlaysForSure:
A 2005 court case strongly criticised the wording of a Microsoft licensing agreement related to portable devices[7]. The license prohibited makers of portable devices compatible with Windows Media Player from using non-Microsoft audio encoding formats. Microsoft indicated that the wording of their license was poorly written due to an oversight by a junior Microsoft employee. Microsoft quickly amended their stringently worded license agreement at the judge's behest.
Looks like a simple accident! Nothing to see here, move along now...
They left off the most important machines, comprising well over 0.1% of the market! Where's the Commodore 64 version? The TI99/4A version? Timex Sinclair? And I can't even run it on my Krups Coffee-mate 2000!
Corporate policy says, Yes, absolutely, you should (and will) pay for chasing your dreams. You must immediately file a "Notice of pursuance of dreams" form with HR, and, of course, update your Conflict of Interest forms. This matter will obviously be discussed at your next performance review, which has now been rescheduled for January 11 at 9:45.
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It's not just for an 82 year old. It's also for a 4 year old. Or, for you.
Here's a scenario. Imagine you have to give a presentation to a modest size group -- say, 25 people. Say, perhaps, that a few bigwigs are in attendance (just to boost the stress level). And, just as the presentation is about to start, someone hands you this "convenient presentation remote" to make your presentation "easier". It's got lots of features. Trying to decipher the tiny buttons, it looks like you can adjust the sound, it's got a mini-joystick to move the mouse, and mouse buttons. There's another two buttons at the bottom, one looks like it might be for blanking the screen, one says FS, though I don't know what that means. It's also got a little thumb-wheel, that does something... Maybe it's the scroll wheel for the mini-mouse?
But, right now, you want to know how to flip to the next slide, maybe flip back to the last slide, and possibly have some kind of laser pointer. I'm guessing the forward and back buttons are the little arrows in the middle of the unit, and the little red dot button may be the laser pointer.
With the stress of an actual presentation at hand, are you sure you can find the right button for those features? With all those people sitting there, and the stress of trying to sell your idea at the front of your mind, your fingers feel fat, and your palms feel pretty clammy. If you needed to do anything that those other tiny buttons required, you'd probably just walk the few steps back to your laptop to use the trackpad, rather than trying to navigate through menus with the microscopic joystick.
For its actual purpose, a presentation, most of those buttons are pretty much useless. Not only useless, but distracting. The three or four features that are really essential aren't easy to find with your fingers without looking. This clearly was designed by people who don't give real presentations -- in front of 20 people, much less 2,000.
It's like the "mouse" with dozens of buttons -- like this one. Sure, it's great for playing Missile Command, or for a first-person-shooter game. But for my actual work -- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Statistics, Number crunching, Excel, Word, Coding... (and all that other boring stuff) well... I just use a normal plain old mouse and that 101 key multi input device that's conveniently located right front and center. I don't need to go through the hassle to set it up and then remember which of the unlabeled buttons brings up the spell checker in Word, or the line thickness in Illo.
If you see an article talking about having sex with bears, it's probably about Scooter Libby. If it's about other animals, it could be about this guy. Of course, it could be vandalism, too. Not all right-wing politicians have a "wide stance" in airport bathrooms, a diaper fetish, or are attracted to animals.
I had at least a blue-screen every other day for the first two weeks I ran Vista. After a couple of "windows updates" it was down to once a week. Now I'm down to once every two weeks or so. This is on a pre-installed vista home premium that came with a dual-core laptop. Not a hacked together piece of garbage. Vista is crashing less, but now I find that random services just stop working, like the trackpad, or the network. Just the little stuff.
Under the 5th amendment, you have the right not to testify against yourself. You can decline to answer questions. You can't order that the prosecutor hand back all the evidence he has collected about the case, and never speak of the details under penalty of imprisonment. That's just a wee bit more broad sweeping. And, it's a very effective way for a corrupt government to sweep away any accountability for even the most blatantly illegal activities. And guess what! You can't say anything about it, unless you want to go to jail for the rest of your life!
It was invented as an "immune from opposition" ploy in the first place. As noted in Wikipedia,
The privilege was first officially recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1953 decision, United States v. Reynolds (345 U.S. 1). A military airplane, a B-29 Superfortress bomber, crashed. The widows of three civilian crew members sought accident reports on the crash but were told that to release such details would threaten national security by revealing the bomber's top-secret mission.[snip]
As a footnote to the founding case establishing the privilege, in 2000, the accident reports were declassified and released, and it was found that the argument was fraudulent, and there was no secret information. The reports did, however, contain information about the poor state of condition of the aircraft itself, which would have been very compromising to the Air Force's case.
It's worth keeping that history in mind when reading about how this fine administration is throwing the "state secrets" claims around in what could be very damaging cases.
for a double major in two hard science disciplines. This isn't some foo-foo private university where they'll graduate you in 4 no matter what you do, it's two degrees from a University of California campus. Lots of classes that are required are taught only once a year -- or sometimes even every other year. If you can't get a spot in the class, tough. You get to spend an extra year. God forbid you have two required courses that are only taught once a year -- and they're scheduled at the same hour. It's not uncommon for people to get "out of sequence"... and spend an extra year. (I speak from experience on that front)
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000] is what I have on my machine. I'm not upgrading to 6.66 until after Halloween. This version is frightening enough.
You haven't blue screened in 6 years? I'm impressed. I bought a windows Vista laptop about 6 months ago. It only gets light use, mostly web surfing and some microsoft word. I have a Mac at work that does most of the heavy lifting, and it works pretty flawlessly, even though it is several years old and way overworked.
I just went back and checked the "problem reports"; I've had 26 blue screens (Windows shut down unexpectedly) in the "windows" column. It has gotten better after a few updates here and there, but it is not by any stretch "crash free". I certainly have to reboot often, if I don't want it to crash.
She said "DiamondPLATE", not diamond. As in the chrome steel with herringbone ridges that's used on trucks. I disagree, however. You can't just do diamondplate--that's too common. It also needs the "Back Off" mudflaps with the picture of Yosemite Sam.
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If you make the bacteria "shit" some form of oil, or very long chain alcohol, it will rise to the surface and you can just skim off the good stuff. Another note: In my experience growing bacteria in the lab, most small scale production isn't limited by feedstock, it's limited by pH. Bacteria acidify their media as they grow, and eventually that halts the growth. The "high efficiency" growth stocks don't add more "feed", they have buffers for pH. I'm sure that this is taken care of in large-scale production runs, but if you're planning on trying this at home, keep the pH in mind.
I'd say if lab work is truly glamorous, you're probably doing it wrong. It's usually a lot of work. A good chunk of the time, it doesn't work. Sometimes it is fun, but in my experience, real honest to god lab work is never going to get you a cable special. Lab DEMOS, where you're demonstrating work that's been done dozens of times, and perfected to the point of flawlessness, can be somewhat glamorous. But the real work isn't for show.
If you're in a warmer climate, try bird-crap and bugs. Try driving down I-5 from Redding to Sacramento CA in the late spring sometime. Bugs coming at you like a freakin' hailstorm. Grasshoppers, dragonflies... Big juicy bugs that leave splats. Or, if you're relay lucky, you might get hit by a stray tomato flying off a truck. Let's see a nano-wiper sweep away that!
It's sort of like CBS and Viacom telling shareholders that online content is worth hundreds of millions of dollars (and suing YouTube for a billion bucks) and then telling the writers that online content doesn't make any money.
Old joke: Ask a math teacher, how much does five plus five equal, they say "10". Ask a hollywood accountant, they'll close the blinds, shut the door, and whisper "How much do you want it to be?"
They didn't check it for HER. They checked it for them- to see if they could find drugs. It's nice they didn't taser her a few times, just in case she was dangerous.
They put warning labels on extension cords, because there are people like this out there.
So, how the hell is that useful for Wal-Mart, in tagging pallets? Having done inventory in a warehouse before in my mis-spent youth, I can tell you that on a pallet (wrapped in shrink wrap, stacked three high), an RFID tag that only read at one inch (or even six inches) would be completely useless. Pretty much the same usefulness as a bar-code sticker, or a metal tag with an embossed number. Those Wal-mart people must be morons to insist that their suppliers include tags on shipping pallets that cant be read from more than an inch away.
But, since you insist, there must not be any other kind of RFID. I'll go edit the wikipedia entry now. It's obviously written by a conspiracy nut.
They left off the most important machines, comprising well over 0.1% of the market! Where's the Commodore 64 version? The TI99/4A version? Timex Sinclair? And I can't even run it on my Krups Coffee-mate 2000!
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It's not just for an 82 year old. It's also for a 4 year old. Or, for you.
Here's a scenario. Imagine you have to give a presentation to a modest size group -- say, 25 people. Say, perhaps, that a few bigwigs are in attendance (just to boost the stress level). And, just as the presentation is about to start, someone hands you this "convenient presentation remote" to make your presentation "easier". It's got lots of features. Trying to decipher the tiny buttons, it looks like you can adjust the sound, it's got a mini-joystick to move the mouse, and mouse buttons. There's another two buttons at the bottom, one looks like it might be for blanking the screen, one says FS, though I don't know what that means. It's also got a little thumb-wheel, that does something... Maybe it's the scroll wheel for the mini-mouse?
But, right now, you want to know how to flip to the next slide, maybe flip back to the last slide, and possibly have some kind of laser pointer. I'm guessing the forward and back buttons are the little arrows in the middle of the unit, and the little red dot button may be the laser pointer.
With the stress of an actual presentation at hand, are you sure you can find the right button for those features? With all those people sitting there, and the stress of trying to sell your idea at the front of your mind, your fingers feel fat, and your palms feel pretty clammy. If you needed to do anything that those other tiny buttons required, you'd probably just walk the few steps back to your laptop to use the trackpad, rather than trying to navigate through menus with the microscopic joystick.
For its actual purpose, a presentation, most of those buttons are pretty much useless. Not only useless, but distracting. The three or four features that are really essential aren't easy to find with your fingers without looking. This clearly was designed by people who don't give real presentations -- in front of 20 people, much less 2,000.
It's like the "mouse" with dozens of buttons -- like this one. Sure, it's great for playing Missile Command, or for a first-person-shooter game. But for my actual work -- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Statistics, Number crunching, Excel, Word, Coding... (and all that other boring stuff) well... I just use a normal plain old mouse and that 101 key multi input device that's conveniently located right front and center. I don't need to go through the hassle to set it up and then remember which of the unlabeled buttons brings up the spell checker in Word, or the line thickness in Illo.
If you see an article talking about having sex with bears, it's probably about Scooter Libby. If it's about other animals, it could be about this guy. Of course, it could be vandalism, too. Not all right-wing politicians have a "wide stance" in airport bathrooms, a diaper fetish, or are attracted to animals.
I had at least a blue-screen every other day for the first two weeks I ran Vista. After a couple of "windows updates" it was down to once a week. Now I'm down to once every two weeks or so. This is on a pre-installed vista home premium that came with a dual-core laptop. Not a hacked together piece of garbage. Vista is crashing less, but now I find that random services just stop working, like the trackpad, or the network. Just the little stuff.
Under the 5th amendment, you have the right not to testify against yourself. You can decline to answer questions. You can't order that the prosecutor hand back all the evidence he has collected about the case, and never speak of the details under penalty of imprisonment. That's just a wee bit more broad sweeping. And, it's a very effective way for a corrupt government to sweep away any accountability for even the most blatantly illegal activities. And guess what! You can't say anything about it, unless you want to go to jail for the rest of your life!
Of course, there are some who have argued that Mullis shouldn't have gotten a Nobel for rediscovering the work of some Soviet scientists from 10 years earlier, regardless of whether he was surfing (or high) at the time...
for a double major in two hard science disciplines. This isn't some foo-foo private university where they'll graduate you in 4 no matter what you do, it's two degrees from a University of California campus. Lots of classes that are required are taught only once a year -- or sometimes even every other year. If you can't get a spot in the class, tough. You get to spend an extra year. God forbid you have two required courses that are only taught once a year -- and they're scheduled at the same hour. It's not uncommon for people to get "out of sequence"... and spend an extra year. (I speak from experience on that front)
You might want to look up the Bayh-Dole act before you say that too loudly.
I'm just happy when my baggage comes out at all . Going without luggage just adds that extra touch to a crappy plane flight.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000] is what I have on my machine. I'm not upgrading to 6.66 until after Halloween. This version is frightening enough.
You haven't blue screened in 6 years? I'm impressed. I bought a windows Vista laptop about 6 months ago. It only gets light use, mostly web surfing and some microsoft word. I have a Mac at work that does most of the heavy lifting, and it works pretty flawlessly, even though it is several years old and way overworked.
I just went back and checked the "problem reports"; I've had 26 blue screens (Windows shut down unexpectedly) in the "windows" column. It has gotten better after a few updates here and there, but it is not by any stretch "crash free". I certainly have to reboot often, if I don't want it to crash.
She said "DiamondPLATE", not diamond. As in the chrome steel with herringbone ridges that's used on trucks. I disagree, however. You can't just do diamondplate--that's too common. It also needs the "Back Off" mudflaps with the picture of Yosemite Sam.