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  1. Re:Today is half Tau day on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    I am waiting for Tau Day not Pi Day.

    Rho Rho!

    You made a punny!

  2. King County Metro wished 3 and 14 bus Happy Pi Day on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    The King County Metro twitter account wished the bus routes 3 and 14 a Happy Pi Day today.

    You can probably read about on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website at Seattle PI is my guess.

  3. You can buy 2TB HDD for less than $100 on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    So, basically, you're paying them $40 to power $100 worth of storage, or a rental per month of ... seriously, that's quite the markup.

  4. Re:I was in the Peabody coal IPO on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    Buying them out takes too long.

    I'd recommend forcing the clean war act powers and giving them Do Or Die change orders.

    Starting with the ones with lowest efficiency and highest pollution and working down to current EPA air standards.

    Set a ten year replacement schedule and expire 10 percent per year.

    This would also create US jobs and increase our coal reserves and energy efficiency while reducing pollution.

  5. It was far better before you all came along on As the Web Turns 25, Sir Tim Berners-Lee Calls For A Web Magna Carta · · Score: 1

    But that's just my humble opinion.

  6. I was in the Peabody coal IPO on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Quite frankly, you're wasting your time.

    Most of the owners of coal stocks intend to hold it.

    You'd be better off investing in more efficient coal-burning plants that cause less waste and less pollution, including GHG emissions, from the same unit of coal.

    You're also missing that a lot of the country is national and state parks and federal lands (like military) which are forced to lease lands with coal at insanely low rates for mining.

    Fix those things. Your money will go farther.

    (personally, my carbon impact is about 1/10th of most Americans, so Do More, Whine Less)

  7. Re:Biggest detail left out on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 2

    You incorrectly fail to realize that is "of declared taxable income" of "that which was not hidden in a tax haven" or "excluded for purposes of a trust" or "excluded from consideration due to being non-taxable farm income".

    There's a reason they paid 24 percent of "declared income".

    It's because that amount declared is much much smaller than the amount they earned.

    Unless they have really stupid tax accountants and tax lawyers.

    In which case they should fire them.

  8. Re:Biggest detail left out on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    of course we cap payments - it's insurance.

    When Bernie Madoff steals everything from you, you'll have something.

    Go live in Somalia if you want to avoid taxes.

  9. Re:Missing the big point: Exclusions are Giveaways on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    It seems to me you fail to understand how international finance and tax havens work.

    Try reading some real business journals sometime, for example, follow the WSJ reporters in the field, the Bloomberg reporting, the Reuters business reporters, and the Economist reporters.

    People like you are obsessed with counting the apples when we assign you to count the fruits, ignoring the warehouse full of oranges, lemons, and limes that dwarf the apples that they show you.

    Try following the M1, M2 and M3 money supplies and watch as money disappears into tax havens when certain individuals travel there.

  10. Re:Biggest detail left out on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Also, if a top earner is actually paying 24 percent income tax, they don't live in one of the states with no income tax.

    Real top earners have a median income tax of around 8 percent.

    Only suckers who can't afford tax lawyers and tax accountants pay 24 percent.

    Fwiw, my brother and uncle both work in tax and insurance law in NYC.

  11. Re:Biggest detail left out on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Which is why SSI contributions should not be capped.

    Nor should carried interest be exempt from "earnings".

  12. Re:Missing the big point: Exclusions are Giveaways on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Forbes lies.

    You need to learn that in the real world there are three accounting books - the one you show the government, the one you show your employees, and the one you show your owners.

    I stand by my correct statement.

    (fwiw I was investing in Apple long before the Black Monday stock crash)

  13. Re:Biggest detail left out on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Actually, the richest 1 percent don't pay SS tax on earnings over $145,000 - so they would expect LESS payout than what they actually are getting - proving once again that the 1 percent are Takers not Makers.

  14. We already have 3 100 Gbps ports on Intel Rolling Out 800Gbps Cables This Year · · Score: 1

    Actually, at the UW, we already have three 100 Gbps ports - two in the 4545 building and one in the basement of the UW Tower. And a bunch of 40 Gbps ports around the Seattle campus.

    The surprising thing is there aren't any down at the UW Medical Center. Where you'd expect more demand.

  15. Missing the big point: Exclusions are Giveaways on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    The problem is you're focussed only on outgoing receipts.

    In cold hard accounting reality the main problem is Tax Exclusions and Exemptions, which are even larger.

    And which include Apple and other corporations paying 1/1000th the tax rate that individuals do.

    There's your missing money.

    Now step away from my Social Security and Medicare - I've been paying for it for decades and it's not YOURS, Taker!

  16. Re:It's easy money on Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, Up 22% · · Score: 1

    Um, technically, that was a Canadian subcontractor, so blaming it on US tech workers is a bit of a stretch.

    Outsourcing sucks.

  17. A degree is not the same as being hired on Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, Up 22% · · Score: 2

    Get at least six months of work in the field before you graduate with your CS degree.

    Oh, and based on what I've seen, a lot of the students taking that are from other countries.

    Not to be confused with local students, of which there are many.

    As to the supposed goal of increasing women in technology, I've noticed it's all about only direct entry first year in STEM targetted on girls in middle and high school, which is fine, but ignores all the women who graduated high school and started work in another field or got all or part way to a degree in another field before deciding they liked tech better.

    You need to fix that, because there are too many hoops to jump through and it's very confusing.

  18. She's just upset we used those private pics on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, posting them in the CIA bathrooms was a bit too much, but a joke's a joke.

  19. Re:Nuclear weapons don't actually work better on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    Most of the vodka you think is Russian is actually from Finland and Poland and the Ukraine.

    Be very careful about country of origin.

    Stop buying Russian oil and gas and replace them with passive solar and wind power instead.

  20. Nuclear weapons don't actually work better on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    A more sane alternative would be millions of armed drones - cheaper, faster, mobile, able to strike fear anywhere in nearby Russia and destroy their entire fleet by wave skipping (you lose about half of those, but they still hit at the waterline and sink the ship).

    Nuclear weapons are so last century.

  21. We can already do this with a free 10 minute test on New Blood Test Offers Early Warning for Alzheimer's Onset · · Score: 1

    There is a free 10 minute test that was developed at the UW which has a higher accuracy rate and can be administered by any physician.

    Without a blood draw.

    I guess if you don't pay for it, you don't realize the cheaper one is the better one.

    And the reason for using a physician is that they can follow up with treatment after confirming the diagnosis.

  22. House and States defunded transit on Is Traffic Congestion Growing Three Times As Fast As Economy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See, people are too stupid to realize a bus with 60 people that gets defunded means there are now 60 more cars crammed onto the same failed underfunded highway infrastructure.

    A 5 percent reduction in transit funding results in a 30 percent increase in traffic congestion and a 25-50 percent increase in commute times.

    Penny-wise.

    Pound-foolish.

  23. Re:Why not go whole hog and make pancreatic cells? on Researchers Hope To Grow Human Ears From Fat Tissue · · Score: 1

    You mean like the WHO saying people should consume no more than 10 percent of their calories in sugar - which is why people become diabetic in the first place? ...

    Never happen. You want cures for things you're going to keep doing.

  24. Subsidies for the Rich raise Tax on the Rest on How Ireland Got Apple's $9 Billion Australian Profit · · Score: 1

    And you wonder why our societies are hollowing out?

    Look, the Rich don't pay taxes like you and me.

    Well, actually, it's just you. I use a lot of the things I learned from tax lawyers and tax accountants running a large estate so that I pay about what Bill Gates pays.

    Stop subsidizing them. They won't love you more and they won't change their investments in your favor.

  25. Somebody better tell leading research universities on 'Data Science' Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Because they're expanding Data Science.