I'm not sure what they cut in spawn, but the "devil" was about as evil-looking as that cartoon wolf that whistles at ladies (and frankly, a little less menacing).
That kind of cheese was endemic throughout the film. I don't think spawn would've been any better with whatever they cut.
But the payroll withholding ends up being a tax on your employer. Because when you negotiate your salary, you do so knowing that a big chunk is taken out in taxes.
Your employer negotiates knowing all about the "payroll taxes" they'll have to pay too. Add up everything your employer spends on you. That's your compensation. That's what they can afford to spend on you. You're worth more than that, of course, and that's how they get their profit, but it's beneficial, because without the infrastructure, support and coordination they provide, you wouldn't be worth more (well, depending on what it is you do for them, of course. It's kind of hard to design rocket components as a one-man operation, though.)
Ask yourself, if taxes were taken out of the equation, would you really expect not to be able to negotiate salary and benefits up to roughly the same level? Why? If the employer can afford to spend it now, why couldn't they in a low-tax environment? They'll still be competing with other companies for employees.
Totally not true. If there is enough money on the table, whole illicit governments will form to take care of the people's need for illicit arbitration and such.
That's the true nature of the "protection racket" and the danger to the legitimate government is that it can be supplanted by the illicit government.
The market exists. Whether free or not, open or not, the market has formed and exists. The best you can hope for as a government is to influence it in small amounts here and there to achieve your aims. Push too hard and you'll find that like a river delta, it routes around you or bypasses you entirely.
You shouldn't need to stab tomatoes if you're using a proper well-sharpened 8" chef's knife. Don't listen to the kooky armholes who try to convince you to use a serrated knife for that purpose. (or really any purpose except bread) Just keep a steel by the knife drawer and use stones every couple of uses, or get a bunch of knives and take 'em to the supermarket every couple weeks.
I don't know if the points are actually necessary for anything (fruit cup maybe?), but they're also a by-product of sharpening the knife. Even if you manufacture a blade with a rounded tip, it's going to develop a point after a few sharpenings.
Seriously though, I bet sign language actually would make a decent input method. It's word based rather than character based, so input should be faster for experienced users, and the actions have a much wider range of motion which should prevent repetitive stress injury.
Further, one thing people forget about with voice control is bandwidth. Specifically, the lack of it in an office setting. You can't have a small shared office with a group of people talking to their computers without having to deal with cross-talk. Sign language however scales much better, since it's line-of-sight only.
Well, what is the naturally scarce thing in a blockbuster film that you could sell?
Is there enough of it to cover the typical $200M cost to produce? Or better yet, have some obscene profit, to cover the films that turn out to not be good enough to make back their production costs?
A lot of hypothermia research was conducted on Jews by the Nazis. Needless to say it was without their consent and with little regard for their safety. But as a result of this research, we now know that cold-weather rescues are quite possible as well as open heart surgery. Many lives have been saved.
So, if freezing a few Jews to death just to see if we can bring them back is wrong, at least we got a lot of good data from it. Thus justifying the holocaust, at least in part.
The entire "pro-choice" objection to the "pro-life" argument begs the question. It assumes a priori that the fertilized egg is not sufficiently a person to deserve rights, which if true obviously invalidates the pro-life objection that it is sufficiently a person to deserve rights.
Also, this is just ignorant:
For a religon based on teachings of tolerance, love for your enemy, forgiveness, and redemption, you would think the state of our [objectionable thing that still goes on] would have the "religious right" outraged!
I think if you look at a wide range of such issues, you'll find that the "religious right" is in fact behind some of the most vocal opposition.
I mean, if he'd had some insight or something this might've been interesting, but all he did was download his own album, call the process bizarre, and.. nothing.
He could have commented on how fantastically easy it was and how that ease makes it a huge temptation and had some kind of..thing to say.. about that..
But it's just several paragraphs of fluff about how he gets together with friends to drink wine and click about web pages*, but only just now** tried to find out about something they've been railing against..
*which, frankly, doesn't exactly sound very Metal to me...
A celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
Don't worry about a humungus pile of digital information. I would worry about keeping BASIC information, like how to make soap at home, and candles out of fat, and keeping it in a form that won't disappear when Microsoft deems it worthy of DRM.
If you're really worried about that, why don't you do some research and write a book on that stuff, and "print" it on something more durable than the typical book material. I bet you'd get a lot of buyers.
Now let's see.. clay tablets are probably the most enduring medium, but they might be tricky to mass produce and distribute. The dead sea scrolls are a pretty good study of a fairly compact information storage medium, being composed of leather, some kind of paper, or some kind of metal (tin? copper? I forget) with varying success at retention.
The antikythera mechanism seems to have lasted for a long time in a saltwater environment. Perhaps that would be a good material of choice.
No, he's right. "lost jobs" due to technology upgrades are not costs. To be sure, they are not good for the people who lose the jobs, but society as a whole benefits: those people are now freed to do something else, increasing the net wealth available to everyone.
It doesn't map perfectly to the broken window fallacy, but it is certainly well related.
If you always count "lost jobs" as costs, you'll never get beyond Mennonite colony levels of lifestyles. Come to think of it, you'll never get UP TO that level.
Without the tractor to replace field workers, we couldn't afford to dedicate the manpower to medicine or developing plasma TVs. Your cushy office job couldn't exist without backbreaking laboring jobs being lost to productivity gains.
They still do, but it hasn't improved like the webmail providers: still only 3-5 accounts of rather small storage often lacking in even basic security features like ssl.
More importantly, however, it isn't portable. With webmail, you can switch from comcast to verizon to timewarner to bell to whatever without having to tell everyone to please start using the new address.
If you run your own mail sever, presumably you'd be willing to pay the small fee to point a domain name at it, giving you just as much portability.
btw, do you have a step-by-step howto on that config starting with, say, a default linux distro (e.g. ubuntu)? Even your description sounds like a lot of steps, that I'm a little unclear as to whether you even can grok them separately or have to understand the entire thing before typing the first command.
That is.. awfully young to be both a grandmother and a feminist. Assuming you're telling the truth, though, don't you think it's a little self serving for a woman to be a feminist? I mean, I'm sure Louis XVI was a royalist, but is it really a virtue?
If you can end a sentence with a period, you can end a statement with a semicolon.
Go back to Fortran pre-90, you luddite. Whitespace should be used to make your code readable. Which it manifestly does *not* when it's part of the syntax.
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Yeah, brilliant. You just shot the asperger's sufferer in the face, you incompetent buffoon.
I'm not sure what they cut in spawn, but the "devil" was about as evil-looking as that cartoon wolf that whistles at ladies (and frankly, a little less menacing).
That kind of cheese was endemic throughout the film. I don't think spawn would've been any better with whatever they cut.
Yeah, but the price of dirt is going to go through the roof!
Ok, so how much for a "server" version of OS X that'll let you do the same thing?
Uh, Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is less than $300 at Newegg.
And that's the full retail version. It can be had for less than $200 if you don't care about the twenty minutes of useless support you'll be missing.
What 3rd party software are you including that bumps up the price by almost 100%?
You should try it with your own card. iirc, it asks you for your PIN for each transaction.
The consequences should be drastic and dreadful so that even a Nixon wouldn't dream of incurring them.
It's ironic that you picked Nixon as your example, since his experience with vote fraud was as the alleged victim in the 1960 election.
Your employer negotiates knowing all about the "payroll taxes" they'll have to pay too. Add up everything your employer spends on you. That's your compensation. That's what they can afford to spend on you. You're worth more than that, of course, and that's how they get their profit, but it's beneficial, because without the infrastructure, support and coordination they provide, you wouldn't be worth more (well, depending on what it is you do for them, of course. It's kind of hard to design rocket components as a one-man operation, though.)
Ask yourself, if taxes were taken out of the equation, would you really expect not to be able to negotiate salary and benefits up to roughly the same level? Why? If the employer can afford to spend it now, why couldn't they in a low-tax environment? They'll still be competing with other companies for employees.
I don't know about that, but I'll put even money he was less than six degrees from Bacon.
Totally not true. If there is enough money on the table, whole illicit governments will form to take care of the people's need for illicit arbitration and such.
That's the true nature of the "protection racket" and the danger to the legitimate government is that it can be supplanted by the illicit government.
The market exists. Whether free or not, open or not, the market has formed and exists. The best you can hope for as a government is to influence it in small amounts here and there to achieve your aims. Push too hard and you'll find that like a river delta, it routes around you or bypasses you entirely.
That is why prohibition is dangerous.
You shouldn't need to stab tomatoes if you're using a proper well-sharpened 8" chef's knife. Don't listen to the kooky armholes who try to convince you to use a serrated knife for that purpose. (or really any purpose except bread) Just keep a steel by the knife drawer and use stones every couple of uses, or get a bunch of knives and take 'em to the supermarket every couple weeks.
I don't know if the points are actually necessary for anything (fruit cup maybe?), but they're also a by-product of sharpening the knife. Even if you manufacture a blade with a rounded tip, it's going to develop a point after a few sharpenings.
It was my impression that packing algorithms are more interesting to chemists and metallurgists than longshoremen and stevedores.
I'm surprised no one's suggested Kindle yet. From what I've read, it would fit a few use cases.
So, you want a Bene Gesserit Television set?
Seriously though, I bet sign language actually would make a decent input method. It's word based rather than character based, so input should be faster for experienced users, and the actions have a much wider range of motion which should prevent repetitive stress injury.
Further, one thing people forget about with voice control is bandwidth. Specifically, the lack of it in an office setting. You can't have a small shared office with a group of people talking to their computers without having to deal with cross-talk. Sign language however scales much better, since it's line-of-sight only.
Well, what is the naturally scarce thing in a blockbuster film that you could sell?
Is there enough of it to cover the typical $200M cost to produce? Or better yet, have some obscene profit, to cover the films that turn out to not be good enough to make back their production costs?
A lot of hypothermia research was conducted on Jews by the Nazis. Needless to say it was without their consent and with little regard for their safety. But as a result of this research, we now know that cold-weather rescues are quite possible as well as open heart surgery. Many lives have been saved.
So, if freezing a few Jews to death just to see if we can bring them back is wrong, at least we got a lot of good data from it. Thus justifying the holocaust, at least in part.
The entire "pro-choice" objection to the "pro-life" argument begs the question. It assumes a priori that the fertilized egg is not sufficiently a person to deserve rights, which if true obviously invalidates the pro-life objection that it is sufficiently a person to deserve rights.
Also, this is just ignorant:
I think if you look at a wide range of such issues, you'll find that the "religious right" is in fact behind some of the most vocal opposition.
I mean, if he'd had some insight or something this might've been interesting, but all he did was download his own album, call the process bizarre, and.. nothing.
He could have commented on how fantastically easy it was and how that ease makes it a huge temptation and had some kind of ..thing to say.. about that..
But it's just several paragraphs of fluff about how he gets together with friends to drink wine and click about web pages*, but only just now** tried to find out about something they've been railing against..
*which, frankly, doesn't exactly sound very Metal to me...
**and by now, I mean a year ago, of course...
You'd think the thing they'd feel guilty about is
http://www.iau.org/public_press/themes/pluto/
Which kinda rules out the entire field of extra-solar planets.
So.. what is the benefit of separating the languages for a single project? Other than taking bits from things developed in several languages?
If you're starting from scratch, wouldn't it be better to be homogeneous?
Ahh, but pressed from what? It's not like they have some kind of articulated pinbox with 6 billion elements.
If you're really worried about that, why don't you do some research and write a book on that stuff, and "print" it on something more durable than the typical book material. I bet you'd get a lot of buyers.
Now let's see.. clay tablets are probably the most enduring medium, but they might be tricky to mass produce and distribute. The dead sea scrolls are a pretty good study of a fairly compact information storage medium, being composed of leather, some kind of paper, or some kind of metal (tin? copper? I forget) with varying success at retention.
The antikythera mechanism seems to have lasted for a long time in a saltwater environment. Perhaps that would be a good material of choice.
No, he's right. "lost jobs" due to technology upgrades are not costs. To be sure, they are not good for the people who lose the jobs, but society as a whole benefits: those people are now freed to do something else, increasing the net wealth available to everyone.
It doesn't map perfectly to the broken window fallacy, but it is certainly well related.
If you always count "lost jobs" as costs, you'll never get beyond Mennonite colony levels of lifestyles. Come to think of it, you'll never get UP TO that level.
Without the tractor to replace field workers, we couldn't afford to dedicate the manpower to medicine or developing plasma TVs. Your cushy office job couldn't exist without backbreaking laboring jobs being lost to productivity gains.
They still do, but it hasn't improved like the webmail providers: still only 3-5 accounts of rather small storage often lacking in even basic security features like ssl.
More importantly, however, it isn't portable. With webmail, you can switch from comcast to verizon to timewarner to bell to whatever without having to tell everyone to please start using the new address.
If you run your own mail sever, presumably you'd be willing to pay the small fee to point a domain name at it, giving you just as much portability.
btw, do you have a step-by-step howto on that config starting with, say, a default linux distro (e.g. ubuntu)? Even your description sounds like a lot of steps, that I'm a little unclear as to whether you even can grok them separately or have to understand the entire thing before typing the first command.
That is .. awfully young to be both a grandmother and a feminist. Assuming you're telling the truth, though, don't you think it's a little self serving for a woman to be a feminist? I mean, I'm sure Louis XVI was a royalist, but is it really a virtue?
If you can end a sentence with a period, you can end a statement with a semicolon.
Go back to Fortran pre-90, you luddite. Whitespace should be used to make your code readable. Which it manifestly does *not* when it's part of the syntax.