Our voting system is more complicated than the various first-past-the-post systems. Generally, however, 7% of the popular vote scores little representation in the Australian House of Representatives either, e.g. Greens hold 1 seat [http://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/HousePartyRepresentation-15508.htm] out of 150 on 11.76% of first preferences [http://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/HousePartyRepresentation-15508.htm]. In our Senate the electoral system works differently and the result is more proportional (e.g. Greens hold 6 of 40 seats on 13.11% of first preferences). The minor parties in our senate hold no direct control of government, but collectively their votes are typically the difference between a measure passing or not given the fairly even balance between the major parties. This is what gives them a voice.
Well, in Australia, they only have taxes on internet purchases greater than $1000.
Just to clarify, goods and services tax (GST) is only collected at the border on shipments in excess of $1000 coming from overseas. GST is payable on purchases made within Australia, Internet or not, and the selling business is required to account for, remit the tax and absorb the cost of tracking it. I do not doubt the cost of the tax office collecting the numerous small amounts would swamp the revenue, but that did not stop them collecting the old piecemeal sales taxes on values over $400 (but it was hit and miss).
How long before Apple legal drones come up with some way to call this unauthorised distribution of their "intellectual property" and start demanding a cut of the rental?
Rumours and unidentified sources are not facts. Even TFA says, "Final decision on Square Kilometer Array's location not expected before April." There's plenty of time for trading of horse, greasing of palms etc.
The Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem basically shows that if an analogue signal contains no frequency higher than B Hz then sampling at any rate greater than 2B Hz is adequate to reproduce the signal without aliasing. In the case of audio recording intended for the human ear, the highest audible frequency is about 20kHz and the minimum sampling rate to cover that should be 40kHz. This is (partly) where the 44100 HZ sampling rate of CD audio comes from. In practice sampling is usually performed faster than required by the theorem (though not four times faster). The theorem is not sufficient in itself to guarantee perfect reproduction and is limited by the ability of real systems to match the mathematical ideals during sampling and reproduction. Reproduction is, however, typically very close.
The 192kHz sampling that is the subject of this thread is capable of capturing frequencies well beyond the capability of a human ear to hear, or any typical speaker system to reproduce.
Look at internet-connected smart TVs today. A recent study says that 50% of them are never connected to the internet. I think it's because people don't want to "do things" with their TVs. They just want to sit back and watch.
Amen. Mine was connected long enough to discover that navigating the thing was so cumbersome it was faster to walk to the study, start my machine, grab the Youtube content and stick it on my MythTV box. Or get the weather, or flight times, or play games, or...
My business no longer uses PayPal and has a Mastercard/Visa merchant account and payment processor instead. PayPal were simply impenetrable when something went wrong with a payment. Refused payment from a good card? I couldn't find out why to help the customer... they'd only talk to the customer. When the customer called they'd just be fobbed off. I'd lose a customer, they wouldn't care. PayPal forces the user to duck and weave to avoid signing up for an account and surrendering unneeded information. PayPal were incapable of forwarding funds in any sort of prompt manner, preferring to pay the old cheque-clearance scam with 5-7 days of "free" money to invest. PayPal is at least partly regulated in Australia, but don't try to get a straight answer out of them about why they don't issue any sort of invoice for tax purposes. Don't get me started on their monopolist ethics.
I have all the visibility I need with the payment processor I use now, it clears once or twice a day, they provide much better paperwork for tax purposes, and they are actually cheaper.
Thanks for answering the question from a point of knowledge. Some of these are less likely to be an issue in tropical Kenya where 'winter' low temperatures are above 13 Celsius (55F). Any toilet system is going to require some maintenance though, just as western flush toilets do (it is just removed from sight). When your options are no sanitation, and some sanitation that requires a bit of effort, perhaps the impediments are not so great.
Why reinvent the toilet when we already have perfectly functional, no-energy (or very low energy) composting toilet and urine diversion options? What is it about these options that does not meet the criteria?
That's not anecdotal, it's concrete data, but not a convincing illustration. 20 years to increase from $36 to $120/hr. That's a factor of 3.33 over 20 years or an annual growth rate of 6%. Hardly hyperinflation.
Looking at averaged petrol prices in Brisbane, Australia: Dec 1980 $0.306 per litre to Dec 2006 $1.111 per litre (http://www.aaa.asn.au/documents/stats/70.xls). Factor of 3.63 over 26 years or an annual rate of 4.96%. That is hardly abnormal inflation. Yesterday that same fuel was 1.519 per litre, a 6.25% percent rate over the past five years but the volatility of fuel price here is a big factor: that fuel was 1.419 last weekend, and is strongly cyclical.
The fundamental problem getting from the Middle East to Australia or New Zealand is that it is hard to avoid a stop in Dubai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, or Bangkok. You have 50% chance of a Muslim country on route. You really have to go out of your way to avoid this possibility, and you'd only do that if you knew you were being pursued.
Actually, this seems so fast that I'm sure they used their border control measures to deny entry and immediately return the journalist to his point of origin. Much cheaper and more expedient than actually holding an extradition hearing and potentially allowing appeals.
Or renaming the company to Yahweh and going after the religious audience. This has the added bonus that your "customers" are predisposed to believe in miraculous reincarnation... something Yahoo needs.
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They'll find a way to call a file hash a derivative work and sue anybody hosting a hash. In their eyes: the hash corresponds uniquely to a particular file they claim infringes their copyright, and it is derived from 100% of the file and therefore cannot be fair use. Long bows are the best (aka most profitable) bows in legal circles.
I must say I am puzzled by the notion that elections for federal public office would fall under the umbrella of "Interstate Commerce" as if money changes hands for elec... Oh! I see.
Australia "snagged" the Super Hornet to fill a gap left by the retirement of the F-111 fleet before the much over-hyped, over-priced and over-late F-35 is delivered (as 'early' as 2014).
hell I bet for 50 million you can get fricking Boeing to yank the wing off a retired 707 and perfectly fit it to that one.
I think you're dreaming. Even at the time of production it is unlikely that there were long runs of identical wings fitted to the commercial 707: modifications as aircraft production lines run are the norm, not the exception. However, the KC-135 and 707 share common ancestor, not a common production line, so the odds of any commercial 707 wing fitting are minimal. The tanker wings have also been heavily modified to handle the newer engines and systems for pumping fuel out of wing storage tanks. Even if, and that's a big if, you got a "close enough" match (are there mothballed KC135s?), you still have to overhead of engineering modification processes and retooling for 707 work for essentially a one-off job. $50 million would barely cover the pizza bill.
I had a coffee-out-the-nose moment when I saw "Rupert Murdoch" and "open software" in the same sentence. Murdoch doesn't believe anything positive comes from "open" anything. Perhaps, use of the service will be "open" to anyone with enough financial lubrication.
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Our voting system is more complicated than the various first-past-the-post systems. Generally, however, 7% of the popular vote scores little representation in the Australian House of Representatives either, e.g. Greens hold 1 seat [http://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/HousePartyRepresentation-15508.htm] out of 150 on 11.76% of first preferences [http://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/HousePartyRepresentation-15508.htm]. In our Senate the electoral system works differently and the result is more proportional (e.g. Greens hold 6 of 40 seats on 13.11% of first preferences). The minor parties in our senate hold no direct control of government, but collectively their votes are typically the difference between a measure passing or not given the fairly even balance between the major parties. This is what gives them a voice.
Bravo! One of the better oblique references I have seen in a while
in Australia, that $100 bills are green
... and plastic, like the alternatives :)
Well, in Australia, they only have taxes on internet purchases greater than $1000.
Just to clarify, goods and services tax (GST) is only collected at the border on shipments in excess of $1000 coming from overseas. GST is payable on purchases made within Australia, Internet or not, and the selling business is required to account for, remit the tax and absorb the cost of tracking it. I do not doubt the cost of the tax office collecting the numerous small amounts would swamp the revenue, but that did not stop them collecting the old piecemeal sales taxes on values over $400 (but it was hit and miss).
How long before Apple legal drones come up with some way to call this unauthorised distribution of their "intellectual property" and start demanding a cut of the rental?
Rumours and unidentified sources are not facts. Even TFA says, "Final decision on Square Kilometer Array's location not expected before April." There's plenty of time for trading of horse, greasing of palms etc.
The Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem basically shows that if an analogue signal contains no frequency higher than B Hz then sampling at any rate greater than 2B Hz is adequate to reproduce the signal without aliasing. In the case of audio recording intended for the human ear, the highest audible frequency is about 20kHz and the minimum sampling rate to cover that should be 40kHz. This is (partly) where the 44100 HZ sampling rate of CD audio comes from. In practice sampling is usually performed faster than required by the theorem (though not four times faster). The theorem is not sufficient in itself to guarantee perfect reproduction and is limited by the ability of real systems to match the mathematical ideals during sampling and reproduction. Reproduction is, however, typically very close.
The 192kHz sampling that is the subject of this thread is capable of capturing frequencies well beyond the capability of a human ear to hear, or any typical speaker system to reproduce.
Look at internet-connected smart TVs today. A recent study says that 50% of them are never connected to the internet. I think it's because people don't want to "do things" with their TVs. They just want to sit back and watch.
Amen. Mine was connected long enough to discover that navigating the thing was so cumbersome it was faster to walk to the study, start my machine, grab the Youtube content and stick it on my MythTV box. Or get the weather, or flight times, or play games, or ...
My business no longer uses PayPal and has a Mastercard/Visa merchant account and payment processor instead. PayPal were simply impenetrable when something went wrong with a payment. Refused payment from a good card? I couldn't find out why to help the customer... they'd only talk to the customer. When the customer called they'd just be fobbed off. I'd lose a customer, they wouldn't care. PayPal forces the user to duck and weave to avoid signing up for an account and surrendering unneeded information. PayPal were incapable of forwarding funds in any sort of prompt manner, preferring to pay the old cheque-clearance scam with 5-7 days of "free" money to invest. PayPal is at least partly regulated in Australia, but don't try to get a straight answer out of them about why they don't issue any sort of invoice for tax purposes. Don't get me started on their monopolist ethics.
I have all the visibility I need with the payment processor I use now, it clears once or twice a day, they provide much better paperwork for tax purposes, and they are actually cheaper.
Slashdot might need to deploy smoke extractors to cope with the ASCII porn that's now smouldering for all the wrong reasons.
Thankfully some kind soul Coral cached it: http://www.asciipr0n.com.nyud.net/pr0n/pinups/pinup09.txt
Thanks for answering the question from a point of knowledge. Some of these are less likely to be an issue in tropical Kenya where 'winter' low temperatures are above 13 Celsius (55F). Any toilet system is going to require some maintenance though, just as western flush toilets do (it is just removed from sight). When your options are no sanitation, and some sanitation that requires a bit of effort, perhaps the impediments are not so great.
Why reinvent the toilet when we already have perfectly functional, no-energy (or very low energy) composting toilet and urine diversion options? What is it about these options that does not meet the criteria?
That's not anecdotal, it's concrete data, but not a convincing illustration. 20 years to increase from $36 to $120/hr. That's a factor of 3.33 over 20 years or an annual growth rate of 6%. Hardly hyperinflation.
Looking at averaged petrol prices in Brisbane, Australia: Dec 1980 $0.306 per litre to Dec 2006 $1.111 per litre (http://www.aaa.asn.au/documents/stats/70.xls). Factor of 3.63 over 26 years or an annual rate of 4.96%. That is hardly abnormal inflation. Yesterday that same fuel was 1.519 per litre, a 6.25% percent rate over the past five years but the volatility of fuel price here is a big factor: that fuel was 1.419 last weekend, and is strongly cyclical.
I cannot speak for Russia or China, but I know my former Australian employer offers exactly this for people travelling to the United States.
The fundamental problem getting from the Middle East to Australia or New Zealand is that it is hard to avoid a stop in Dubai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, or Bangkok. You have 50% chance of a Muslim country on route. You really have to go out of your way to avoid this possibility, and you'd only do that if you knew you were being pursued.
Actually, this seems so fast that I'm sure they used their border control measures to deny entry and immediately return the journalist to his point of origin. Much cheaper and more expedient than actually holding an extradition hearing and potentially allowing appeals.
Or renaming the company to Yahweh and going after the religious audience. This has the added bonus that your "customers" are predisposed to believe in miraculous reincarnation... something Yahoo needs.
They'll find a way to call a file hash a derivative work and sue anybody hosting a hash. In their eyes: the hash corresponds uniquely to a particular file they claim infringes their copyright, and it is derived from 100% of the file and therefore cannot be fair use. Long bows are the best (aka most profitable) bows in legal circles.
I must say I am puzzled by the notion that elections for federal public office would fall under the umbrella of "Interstate Commerce" as if money changes hands for elec... Oh! I see.
Australia "snagged" the Super Hornet to fill a gap left by the retirement of the F-111 fleet before the much over-hyped, over-priced and over-late F-35 is delivered (as 'early' as 2014).
Especially since TFA clearly states:
it offered “proxied and peer to peer access to restricted sites” hosted within China and the United States
hell I bet for 50 million you can get fricking Boeing to yank the wing off a retired 707 and perfectly fit it to that one.
I think you're dreaming. Even at the time of production it is unlikely that there were long runs of identical wings fitted to the commercial 707: modifications as aircraft production lines run are the norm, not the exception. However, the KC-135 and 707 share common ancestor, not a common production line, so the odds of any commercial 707 wing fitting are minimal. The tanker wings have also been heavily modified to handle the newer engines and systems for pumping fuel out of wing storage tanks. Even if, and that's a big if, you got a "close enough" match (are there mothballed KC135s?), you still have to overhead of engineering modification processes and retooling for 707 work for essentially a one-off job. $50 million would barely cover the pizza bill.
Call me when your wi-fi mesh can span the Pacific :)
No, "pendantic flair" is a talent or aptitude for the selection and wearing of very stylish and expressive necklaces and earrings.
I had a coffee-out-the-nose moment when I saw "Rupert Murdoch" and "open software" in the same sentence. Murdoch doesn't believe anything positive comes from "open" anything. Perhaps, use of the service will be "open" to anyone with enough financial lubrication.