The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is the fuel blends required by PZEV vehicles is available in sufficient quantity only in California and the others states. If other fuel blends were used the vehicles might not run as cleanly, or even worse than non-PVEZ equivalent vehicles, or maybe even damage the engine. The distribution of boutique fuels is limited to only a few states. It'll take a while, if ever, for the entire US to be using the same type of ultra clean gasoline.
Interesting piece of history there, I never heard of that. Didn't the SCOTUS effectively throw this type of license out since then, and I mean a long time ago. I thought there was a ruling related to property rights that said once you owned something the seller had no more say in the matter of what you did with it. That's why, for example, you can dress up Barbie dolls in strange outfits and post the pictures on the web and Mattel can't do anything about it, unless you're pretending they originated from Mattel, and so on.
This is nothing new. Fuel for use in vehincles on farms does not have road tax applied to it. If you drive on public roads using that fuel you will be fined if caught. This is just special pleadiing that since it's vegetable based fuel he shouldn't have to pay road tax. Wrong. He gets to pay road tax just like the rest of us, or don't use that fuel on public roads.
The April 2007 Popular Mechanics said US Border Patrol is already running UAVs on sections of the US Mexico border, and with the help of the UAVs they are catching drug smugglers and illegal immigrants.
FAA approval has to be granted before UAV can fly anywhere in the US. I suppose it would be easier to get permissioni to fly a slow moving or fairly stationary airship in a populated area than it would be for a plane.
US states have a similar problem. A corporation can have all it's IP assigned to a subsidiary in a low tax state, and the corp pays that subsidiary royalties for using that IP, gets deducted as a business expeness in the high tax state and shows up as profit in the low tax state. Nice trick huh. The only way to cut that out is for all states to tax businesses identically in every way but that's never going to happen, or maybe something at the federal level to prohibit this. That'll never happen either.
Did your accountant tell you certain tax avoidance ( minimization ) strategies have been patented so if you violate the patent you can get in trouble with the patent owner. Nice huh. I think that's pretty crummy, but it is happening.
The more I read stories like this the more I think there should be sizeable criminal penalties for putting private information on laptops. This is just too damn stupid to allow. Yeah, I know, but what about freedom, what about efficiency, blah blah blah. Too many companies and governments have screwed up too many times for this to be allowed anymore. Enough is enough.
Some voice mail systems, including the one I will no longer be working on in a few months, have a feature that allows customers to login to their voice mailbox without entering a password, it's strictly based on call information delivered to the servers. Some famous people have had their voice mail broken into because of that feature. Oh, that feature was requested by the telco service providers.
The issue of who came first utube.com or youtube.com is not relevant. This issue is why should youtube.com be responsible for typos entered by other parties. It's not like youtube.com suggested anyone go to utube.com and visit that website. It would be one thing for youtube.com to put a link on their web site saying "Click here and bring utube.com to it's knees!" but that's not what's going on at all.
I guess that's why there are so many $500,000 homes in the greater Columbus, OH area, huh? I don't know who is buying all these big expensive homes but they are not empty. Home in our neighborhood generally don't cost that much, maybe $400K on the very top end. Several people in our neighborhood are former residents of California. They cashed out of the real-estate market boom there and now have a nice home and a pile of money in the bank.
Ohio has the 3rd highest taxes in the US, this is the biggest reason businesses leave the state. Ohio used to have very low taxes until spendaholic Gov. Gilligan pushed through very large tax increases, and it's been one tax increase after another. The only reason I'm still here is I do have a good job for the time being, the house is paid off, I still have a sister here, and I lived her my whole life. It sure isn't for the great weather; actually September and October and very nice but that's only two months out of the year.
I've looked at the convicted sex offender registry, just knowing where these addresses are I can say that a huge percentage of these people live in trailer parks.
That's not necessarily going to keep you from using an automated system, there are pulse-dialing recognition capable systems. Products like that are usually intended for markets where pulse dialing remains predominant, e.g., Indian 10 years ago ( I don't know about today ).
Phone companies will eventually charge more if you have a rotary phone instead of a touch tone phone. No joke. The reason is rotary phones use up more phone company resources to place calls.
I dispute that they are always less efficient. You can speak a 16 digit credit card number very fast and it will be recognized just fine. AT&T Universal Card has been doing that for over a decade. In this particular case I prefer to speak instead of type ( unless I'm in a public place where privacy trumps speed ).
It can be a much more than that. AT&T was able to reduce the number of long distance operators by 99% and replaced them with a voice recognition system ( I worked on this product ). This was the first use of speech recognition in the US long distance phone network, see: http://www.research.att.com/index.cfm?portal=27 ( scroll down to 1992 ) and look for VRCP.
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It's fitting this ruling came out while "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is now showing at the movie theaters. Okay, okay, bad joke.
This is a crummy ruling, and I was hoping it would go the other way but I'm not suprised that it didn't. The SCOTUS ruled the same way in some what similar cases in the past. For example, the Hawaii land reform law of the 1970s was meant to change the situation where 100 land owners owned nearly 95% of the privately owned land in Hawaii. This law was held up, i.e, the state was allowed to force the sale of land that was privately owned to other private buyers. The SCOTUS doesn't see a lot of difference between these two cases. On the other hand, while Sandra Day O'Conner ruled in favor of the Hawaii land reform law she was dead set against this one.
The thing to do now is to pass laws in state governments to prohibit this practice or at least severely restrict it. Some states already explicity prohibit this, some allow it, most are silent on the matter.
I see you assume too much;-) I had plenty of economics classes at college and I'm an avid reader of Investors Business Daily.
>So, it is critical to drop the cost down.
Critical to whom? MOTO will price it to their advantage, not the publics. As they should.
This is standard marketing practice, price something new high so the geeky early adoptors pay a lot of money, then a bit lower to get the next wave, and so on down until the market is saturated. If they just immediately shoot for the lowest price possible they left a pile of money on the table [ or in your pocket ] unnecessarily. And they don't necessarily know where to price something so they play it conservatively and start high and walk it down. That trick is as old as the hills.
The competition will be strongly encouraged by market pressures to leap frog this innovation. As it should. That's the American way;-)
The FCC HDTV deadline was on the tuners and already passed for large TV, and is coming up on smaller TVs. The deadline was not on the picture, the picture is [or was] the expensive part. I don't think most people are willing to shell out a lot of money for an HDTV tube, if the cost was the close sure why not.
The price to consumers isn't going to be the cost plus some small markup. The price to consumers will be whatever the manufacturer figures will maximize their profit, which could be quite high considering the demand. They ain't no charity.
That's very cool technology, do you think they would invest in that if they thought they couldn't patent it ?;-)
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The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is the fuel blends required by PZEV vehicles is available in sufficient quantity only in California and the others states. If other fuel blends were used the vehicles might not run as cleanly, or even worse than non-PVEZ equivalent vehicles, or maybe even damage the engine. The distribution of boutique fuels is limited to only a few states. It'll take a while, if ever, for the entire US to be using the same type of ultra clean gasoline.
Interesting piece of history there, I never heard of that. Didn't the SCOTUS effectively throw this type of license out since then, and I mean a long time ago. I thought there was a ruling related to property rights that said once you owned something the seller had no more say in the matter of what you did with it. That's why, for example, you can dress up Barbie dolls in strange outfits and post the pictures on the web and Mattel can't do anything about it, unless you're pretending they originated from Mattel, and so on.
This is nothing new. Fuel for use in vehincles on farms does not have road tax applied to it. If you drive on public roads using that fuel you will be fined if caught. This is just special pleadiing that since it's vegetable based fuel he shouldn't have to pay road tax. Wrong. He gets to pay road tax just like the rest of us, or don't use that fuel on public roads.
The April 2007 Popular Mechanics said US Border Patrol is already running UAVs on sections of the US Mexico border, and with the help of the UAVs they are catching drug smugglers and illegal immigrants.
FAA approval has to be granted before UAV can fly anywhere in the US. I suppose it would be easier to get permissioni to fly a slow moving or fairly stationary airship in a populated area than it would be for a plane.
Big Brother loves you.
US states have a similar problem. A corporation can have all it's IP assigned to a subsidiary in a low tax state, and the corp pays that subsidiary royalties for using that IP, gets deducted as a business expeness in the high tax state and shows up as profit in the low tax state. Nice trick huh. The only way to cut that out is for all states to tax businesses identically in every way but that's never going to happen, or maybe something at the federal level to prohibit this. That'll never happen either.
Did your accountant tell you certain tax avoidance ( minimization ) strategies have been patented so if you violate the patent you can get in trouble with the patent owner. Nice huh. I think that's pretty crummy, but it is happening.
Yahoo will delete emails on free accounts after 90 days of not using it. I lost a few years of email on one account.
The more I read stories like this the more I think there should be sizeable criminal penalties for putting private information on laptops. This is just too damn stupid to allow. Yeah, I know, but what about freedom, what about efficiency, blah blah blah. Too many companies and governments have screwed up too many times for this to be allowed anymore. Enough is enough.
Some voice mail systems, including the one I will no longer be working on in a few months, have a feature that allows customers to login to their voice mailbox without entering a password, it's strictly based on call information delivered to the servers. Some famous people have had their voice mail broken into because of that feature. Oh, that feature was requested by the telco service providers.
The issue of who came first utube.com or youtube.com is not relevant. This issue is why should youtube.com be responsible for typos entered by other parties. It's not like youtube.com suggested anyone go to utube.com and visit that website. It would be one thing for youtube.com to put a link on their web site saying "Click here and bring utube.com to it's knees!" but that's not what's going on at all.
I guess that's why there are so many $500,000 homes in the greater Columbus, OH area, huh? I don't know who is buying all these big expensive homes but they are not empty. Home in our neighborhood generally don't cost that much, maybe $400K on the very top end. Several people in our neighborhood are former residents of California. They cashed out of the real-estate market boom there and now have a nice home and a pile of money in the bank.
Ohio has the 3rd highest taxes in the US, this is the biggest reason businesses leave the state. Ohio used to have very low taxes until spendaholic Gov. Gilligan pushed through very large tax increases, and it's been one tax increase after another. The only reason I'm still here is I do have a good job for the time being, the house is paid off, I still have a sister here, and I lived her my whole life. It sure isn't for the great weather; actually September and October and very nice but that's only two months out of the year.
I've looked at the convicted sex offender registry, just knowing where these addresses are I can say that a huge percentage of these people live in trailer parks.
One box I worked on long ago had an unofficial f*** command. It printed "Watch it!" and then did a stty 0 to log you out.
That's not necessarily going to keep you from using an automated system, there are pulse-dialing recognition capable systems. Products like that are usually intended for markets where pulse dialing remains predominant, e.g., Indian 10 years ago ( I don't know about today ).
What is this professors name ? I'm still at Lucent ( really ) and can look up his name in our documentation database.
Phone companies will eventually charge more if you have a rotary phone instead of a touch tone phone. No joke. The reason is rotary phones use up more phone company resources to place calls.
I dispute that they are always less efficient. You can speak a 16 digit credit card number very fast and it will be recognized just fine. AT&T Universal Card has been doing that for over a decade. In this particular case I prefer to speak instead of type ( unless I'm in a public place where privacy trumps speed ).
It can be a much more than that. AT&T was able to reduce the number of long distance operators by 99% and replaced them with a voice recognition system ( I worked on this product ). This was the first use of speech recognition in the US long distance phone network, see:
http://www.research.att.com/index.cfm?portal=27 ( scroll down to 1992 ) and look for VRCP.
There would be a lot less debris if NASA didn't try to make a "green" shuttle. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/28/93055 .shtml
This is a great example of putting the cart before the horse. Idiots.
It's fitting this ruling came out while "The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is now showing
at the movie theaters. Okay, okay, bad joke.
This is a crummy ruling, and I was hoping it
would go the other way but I'm not suprised that
it didn't. The SCOTUS ruled the same way in some
what similar cases in the past. For example, the
Hawaii land reform law of the 1970s was meant to
change the situation where 100 land owners owned
nearly 95% of the privately owned land in Hawaii.
This law was held up, i.e, the state was allowed
to force the sale of land that was privately owned
to other private buyers. The SCOTUS doesn't see
a lot of difference between these two cases. On
the other hand, while Sandra Day O'Conner ruled in
favor of the Hawaii land reform law she was dead
set against this one.
The thing to do now is to pass laws in state
governments to prohibit this practice or at
least severely restrict it. Some states already
explicity prohibit this, some allow it, most are
silent on the matter.
The ICC was abolished several years ago, though
some of its functions were assumed by other fed.gov
agencies.
I see you assume too much ;-) I had plenty of economics classes at college and I'm an avid reader of Investors Business Daily.
;-)
>So, it is critical to drop the cost down.
Critical to whom? MOTO will price it to their advantage, not the publics. As they should.
This is standard marketing practice, price something new high so the geeky early adoptors pay a lot of money, then a bit lower to get the next wave, and so on down until the market is saturated. If they just immediately shoot for the lowest price possible they left a pile of money on the table [ or in your pocket ] unnecessarily. And they don't necessarily know where to price something so they play it conservatively and start high and walk it down. That trick is as old as the hills.
The competition will be strongly encouraged by market pressures to leap frog this innovation. As it should. That's the American way
The FCC HDTV deadline was on the tuners and already passed for large TV, and is coming up on smaller TVs. The deadline was not on the picture, the picture is [or was] the expensive part. I don't think most people are willing to shell out a lot of money for an HDTV tube, if the cost was the close sure why not.
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The price to consumers isn't going to be the cost plus some small markup. The price to consumers will be whatever the manufacturer figures will maximize their profit, which could be quite high considering the demand. They ain't no charity. That's very cool technology, do you think they would invest in that if they thought they couldn't patent it ? ;-)