Because it's a picture ID ??.. just as a Passport is a picture ID.. they have equal power as ID, although a passport should have more power because that requires birth certificate and other documentation to get. And that's different from my New York drivers liscence how?
In the last year it took a lot more ID for me to get my New York liscence then it did for me to get my US passport.
In order to get a New York drivers liscence you need proof of age and 6 points of ID which include a social security card, or a letter from the SSA saying you arn't elegable for a social security card (along with documentation to show that you arn't elegable).
For a US Citizen trying to get a New York liscence proof of age is basically the same list as proof of US citizenship for a passport. A birth certificate and someone who will vouch for you will get you a passport.
Just about any vehicle designed for offroad use is going to have a high center of gravity. It's a side effect of having to design the thing so it doesn't get its undercarriage ripped out when you drive over a stump/rock/whatever.
If you don't pay anything, you can play a song once in full, and as many times as you want as a 30 second clip. If you do pay that 10 cents, you can play the song as many times as you want in full.
I'm not sure why you found that so confusing. The article was pretty clear about it.
The DD(X) is bigger then some navies aircraft carriers. I'm not sure you realize how big these ships are compared to almost every combat ship out there. The only things that out-mass them by a significant margin are some aircraft carriers, the Kirov class battlecruisers, and some amphibous assualt craft. These "Destroyers" are bigger then most of the "Cruisers" out there.
Your conclusion paints a false dichotomy, with the unstated assumption being that any form of SSD technology has to at least be as expensive as RAM.
How does he do that?
As far as I can tell he states: 1) If this technology is expensive might be suitable for RAM, but not for SSDs 2) If this technology is cheap, it might be suitable for SSDs but would also be suitable for RAM, so remove the disk/ram distinction and have one large bank that acts as both
There probably isn't much running through Australia either. They have an extreamly poor connection to the outside world when compared to places like the US or the UK.
A Roman Centurion who commanded a normal full-strength centuria generally had about 80 soldiers, not 100 as the name would suggest. The missing 20 men were non-combat servants or people with special skills.
AFAIK there arn't any modern nuclear reactor being used for commercial energy production in the US. The newest commercial nuclear power plant reactor in the US dates to the 1970. Why would knowledge of modern nuclear reactor functioning be an issue in talking about 30+ year old reactors?
If you have a real phone line, then most of the big long distance companies offer an unlimited plan. A quick check showed plans from AT&T, and MCI, were avaible.
I really hope the article just did a really lousy job of explaining the study because "Less than 2% of UK-based firms have already upgraded all their desktops to Windows Vista" strikes me as an incredibly meaningless statistic. If a company has 2000 computers, 1999 of which were upgraded to Vista, and one of which is still running XP, then they wouldn't be counted.
If a company has a single computer that can't be upgraded to Vista then that company can never be counted as having upgraded. What percentage of UK companies have 5+ year old computer? What percentage have a Mac?
Not much, but seeing as how the Republicans have never held a 2/3s majority in Congress, passing anything over a Clinton Veto would require a fair number of democrats to cooperate.
Even after the "Republican Revolution" of 1994 the republicans only held 53% of the House, and 54% of the senate. They managed to get upto 55% of the senate in '96 and 98', but lost ground in the House.
There's a difference between the government buying services from a business and a government funded entity (such as the Defense dept).
That's true, but it's totally unrelated to what you previously said. Your statement was that taxes don't fund the USPS, and that it is 100% privately funded. This is false. Taxes (in the form of government reimbursement) do fund at least part of the USPS, the USPS is not 100% privately funded.
The governments money is taxpayer money. When a company receives that money it is receiving taxpayer money. It doesn't matter that a service is being purchased, because it is still being purchased with taxpayer money.
There is government money in everything; it is almost impossible to find a company that is "100% privately financed". (On a side track: This is why "no government money for stem cell research" sounds like a compromose but is effectivly a ban).
Taxes don't fund the USPS, its 100% privately funded.
From the USPS website: "The Board of Governors approved a fiscal year 2008 appropriation request totaling $153.4 million. This annual request to Congress, as provided under current law, includes $83.5 million in reimbursement for free services the Postal Service is required to provide, including free mail for blind persons and for overseas voting. This appropriations request also includes reconciliation adjustments for previous years based upon final audited mail volumes, which are $24.9 million for fiscal year 2005 and $16 million for fiscal year 2006. In addition, the request includes $29 million for the latest annual installment from the Revenue Forgone Reform Act of 1993." Sources: http://www.usps.com/financials/#H7 http://www.usps.com/financials/_pdf/Appropriations-2008_Public.pdf
Where in the world are soldiers conscripted anymore? Finland, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, and Israel are the first few that spring to mind without any thought. I'm sure there are lots others.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that photons lose energy when passing through any space. It's a side effect of the red-shift caused by the overall expansion of the universe. As the universe expands it causes the wavelength of the photon to increase, which causes the energy of the photon to decrease.
I don't think your idea would withstand a single good lawyer, let alone an army of them.
As I understand it, one of the requirements for proving the date something was invented is that your documentation must be cooroborated by someone who understood it. Your scheme does not do this. This is why researchers in a corporate setting generally have their lab notebooks signed daily.
There is a huge difference between being aware of something at a basic level, and understanding something at a basic level. The GGP said that calculus wasn't needed to understand diffusion, I still think it would be hard if not impossible to really understand diffusion without understanding some basic calculus.
I would disagree that the "marginal cost of production of a unit of software is damn near 0," when you take into account the man-hours required to create the software in the first place. No, the jewelcase/cardboard/CD/DVD/Bandwidth costs are not that intense, but the time required to create that software has value.
You need to look up the definition of "marginal cost".
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Because it's a picture ID ?? .. just as a Passport is a picture ID.. they have equal power as ID, although a passport should have more power because that requires birth certificate and other documentation to get.
And that's different from my New York drivers liscence how?
In the last year it took a lot more ID for me to get my New York liscence then it did for me to get my US passport.
In order to get a New York drivers liscence you need proof of age and 6 points of ID which include a social security card, or a letter from the SSA saying you arn't elegable for a social security card (along with documentation to show that you arn't elegable).
For a US Citizen trying to get a New York liscence proof of age is basically the same list as proof of US citizenship for a passport. A birth certificate and someone who will vouch for you will get you a passport.
Just about any vehicle designed for offroad use is going to have a high center of gravity. It's a side effect of having to design the thing so it doesn't get its undercarriage ripped out when you drive over a stump/rock/whatever.
If you don't pay anything, you can play a song once in full, and as many times as you want as a 30 second clip.
If you do pay that 10 cents, you can play the song as many times as you want in full.
I'm not sure why you found that so confusing. The article was pretty clear about it.
Even "second smallest" is way off.
The DD(X) is bigger then some navies aircraft carriers. I'm not sure you realize how big these ships are compared to almost every combat ship out there. The only things that out-mass them by a significant margin are some aircraft carriers, the Kirov class battlecruisers, and some amphibous assualt craft. These "Destroyers" are bigger then most of the "Cruisers" out there.
Your conclusion paints a false dichotomy, with the unstated assumption being that any form of SSD technology has to at least be as expensive as RAM.
How does he do that?
As far as I can tell he states:
1) If this technology is expensive might be suitable for RAM, but not for SSDs
2) If this technology is cheap, it might be suitable for SSDs but would also be suitable for RAM, so remove the disk/ram distinction and have one large bank that acts as both
There probably isn't much running through Australia either. They have an extreamly poor connection to the outside world when compared to places like the US or the UK.
There was actually a map of undersea cables a few years ago that I managed to dig up.
http://www.news.com/2300-1033_3-6035611-1.html
Fun fact of the day:
A Roman Centurion who commanded a normal full-strength centuria generally had about 80 soldiers, not 100 as the name would suggest. The missing 20 men were non-combat servants or people with special skills.
AFAIK there arn't any modern nuclear reactor being used for commercial energy production in the US. The newest commercial nuclear power plant reactor in the US dates to the 1970. Why would knowledge of modern nuclear reactor functioning be an issue in talking about 30+ year old reactors?
If you have a real phone line, then most of the big long distance companies offer an unlimited plan.
A quick check showed plans from AT&T, and MCI, were avaible.
I really hope the article just did a really lousy job of explaining the study because "Less than 2% of UK-based firms have already upgraded all their desktops to Windows Vista" strikes me as an incredibly meaningless statistic. If a company has 2000 computers, 1999 of which were upgraded to Vista, and one of which is still running XP, then they wouldn't be counted.
If a company has a single computer that can't be upgraded to Vista then that company can never be counted as having upgraded. What percentage of UK companies have 5+ year old computer? What percentage have a Mac?
Not much, but seeing as how the Republicans have never held a 2/3s majority in Congress, passing anything over a Clinton Veto would require a fair number of democrats to cooperate.
Even after the "Republican Revolution" of 1994 the republicans only held 53% of the House, and 54% of the senate. They managed to get upto 55% of the senate in '96 and 98', but lost ground in the House.
There's a difference between the government buying services from a business and a government funded entity (such as the Defense dept).
That's true, but it's totally unrelated to what you previously said. Your statement was that taxes don't fund the USPS, and that it is 100% privately funded. This is false. Taxes (in the form of government reimbursement) do fund at least part of the USPS, the USPS is not 100% privately funded.
The governments money is taxpayer money. When a company receives that money it is receiving taxpayer money. It doesn't matter that a service is being purchased, because it is still being purchased with taxpayer money.
There is government money in everything; it is almost impossible to find a company that is "100% privately financed". (On a side track: This is why "no government money for stem cell research" sounds like a compromose but is effectivly a ban).
Taxes don't fund the USPS, its 100% privately funded.
From the USPS website:
"The Board of Governors approved a fiscal year 2008 appropriation request totaling $153.4 million. This annual request to Congress, as provided under current law, includes $83.5 million in reimbursement for free services the Postal Service is required to provide, including free mail for blind persons and for overseas voting. This appropriations request also includes reconciliation adjustments for previous years based upon final audited mail volumes, which are $24.9 million for fiscal year 2005 and $16 million for fiscal year 2006. In addition, the request includes $29 million for the latest annual installment from the Revenue Forgone Reform Act of 1993."
Sources:
http://www.usps.com/financials/#H7
http://www.usps.com/financials/_pdf/Appropriations-2008_Public.pdf
If you check out the 2006 Cost and Revenue Analysis you'll also note that they recieved at least $99 million in appropriations.
http://www.usps.com/financials/_pdf/fy06cra.pdf
Sure sounds like they are recieving taxpayer funding to me.
Because there is already a ULEVs designation, and the PZEV exceeds those standards by a lot.
Where in the world are soldiers conscripted anymore?
Finland, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, and Israel are the first few that spring to mind without any thought. I'm sure there are lots others.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that photons lose energy when passing through any space. It's a side effect of the red-shift caused by the overall expansion of the universe. As the universe expands it causes the wavelength of the photon to increase, which causes the energy of the photon to decrease.
Misdemeanor is minor crime. Misdemeanors and felonies. Those are the only two classes.
Under the US system you're missing infractions. Infractions almost never involve jail time and include things like littering and jaywalking.
Neither a film canon nor a literary canon have anything to do with a "bible", so why should a game canon?
You just described Warhammer 40k. Which I would call science fiction.
I don't think your idea would withstand a single good lawyer, let alone an army of them.
As I understand it, one of the requirements for proving the date something was invented is that your documentation must be cooroborated by someone who understood it. Your scheme does not do this. This is why researchers in a corporate setting generally have their lab notebooks signed daily.
How is knowing everything a requirement of omnipotence?
There is a huge difference between being aware of something at a basic level, and understanding something at a basic level. The GGP said that calculus wasn't needed to understand diffusion, I still think it would be hard if not impossible to really understand diffusion without understanding some basic calculus.
You don't need calculus to understand the periodic table, Ohm's law, evolution, rock formations, diffusion...
Fick's first law is about as simple as diffusion gets, and it requires an understanding of derivatives (which I would clasify as simple calculus).
I would disagree that the "marginal cost of production of a unit of software is damn near 0," when you take into account the man-hours required to create the software in the first place. No, the jewelcase/cardboard/CD/DVD/Bandwidth costs are not that intense, but the time required to create that software has value.
You need to look up the definition of "marginal cost".
Cable is the best most people can get (yeah, there might be FIOS in a few cities, but I'm in #5 in the US and we sure don't have it;
Where are you located? Some parts of Philadelphia (#5 in the 2000 census) has FIOS, and they are expanding the coverage pretty quickly.