The standard mileage rate for business is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile, including depreciation, insurance, repairs, tires, maintenance, gas and oil.
You're missing my point. I agree.. history shows the morality of the mob IS to murder and steal.
You want to be morally right and lose everything including your life or do you want to be alive and happy and still be incredibly wealthy compared to the rest of society?
We have a distribution problem. Not a raw resource problem.
Everyone on earth could live better than u.s. citizens did in the 1950s. No one needs to starve. No one needs to be without shelter. No one needs to be without water. And really no one needs to be without entertainment or cheap intoxicants.
That, friends, and family is all most people in the world has needed to be happy for most of time.
The few rare birds with genius level talent could still excel. Everyone doesn't have to suffer.
But yea.. things are going to get ugly despite all that. Hoping it will be after I'm 6' under. Will do what I can tho while I'm here.
We either share voluntarily or we will share by force. Sharing by force usually goes too far.
And I repeat there is plenty of clean food, water, and food for the current and projected population of the earth for the next 30 years (even the new higher estimates). It won't be the same quality as 1970's food (much less 1950's food) but that's not required.
What we have is a distribution problem. We are literally destroying food which could be going to hungry people daily. Large amounts.
If you don't share, you will be forced to share. Once it gets that bad, your chance to control the process will be gone and you'll lose a lot more than if you were fair to begin with. It's your choice.
If you are in your 50s like me, this is all academic. The further you are under 50, the more this applies to you.
technically I should have said Panzerfaust. It also sounds cooler. But it's not common knowledge that is the name for german hand held anti-tank weapons.
The 88 was a very effective weapon. It started as an anti-aircraft gun and had an effective range of 14,860 m (16,250 yds) (~3 miles or ~4 kilometers). It could fire vertically for over a mile. The 88m (3.46") shells would go right thru sherman tanks as if they were made of tissue paper.
That being said, it was basically a failure as an anti-aircraft gun. it wasn't powerful enough to throw shells high enough. Then someone thought of turning it sideways.
No, the tanks were powerful enough to push trees over. Just like bulldozers can pull them down (and some "mere" trucks pull trees and stumps out of the ground). Unlike a truck, a sherman tank weight 66,800 pounds (30.3 tonnes; 29.8 long tons; 33.4 short tons). And had an engine powerful enough to push that weight along at 30 mph. The treads gave it incredible traction too.
Picture the hedge covered with heavy growth 15 to 30 feet high. Difficult to penetrate on foot- easy to hide in and defend. Picture a german bazookaman behind the hedge ready to blow a hole in your soft underbelly. Picture the teeth cutting 12" deep into the hedge before the tank starts to lift upwards. Picture the heavy growth toppling onto the defenses, the top of the hedge being shaved off to become a wide dirt road. Much harder to defend against the infantry following the tank through the new gap.
I measured the over under for individual developers. Within a few projects I could tell who would meet their estimate, who was padding their estimate, and most importantly the ones who never met their estimate.
It didn't matter how cool or neat the work was. What mattered was a predictable schedule. Corporate minded the padders a lot less than the ones who missed estimates or even the ones who made their estimates 90% of the time but missed it 10% of the time.
"We have X months to get this project done. You have X weeks to explore the new technology and tell us if you can do it in 6 months. We'll expect a weekly report on your research and progress. If you can't we are not going to do the project."
The RUP methodology says to work your risks like new technology first. Don't spend 50 million bucks and then find out the linchpin of the project isn't even stable yet.
years ago I watched a shaky, dim release of a pirated film with silhouettes of people walking across the screen.
Fairly quickly pristine copies came out. I didn't see the point of camcorded. Somewhere in the world, there is a manager or a projectionist or a screener who is going to release a copy. Or 6 to 20 weeks later, a perfect copy from the bluray or DVD will come out.
Besides, i can see films on monday for $4.50 u.s. at the theater 4 miles from my house.
Are we anywhere near close to that for astronauts?
You have a couple hundred thousand people ready to go to mars and die.
Settling it is feasible.
I think the moon should come first. That will dramatically lower the cost of building and launching the mars ship. If we could be on mars in 10 years- we SHOULD be.
I'd still mind but the idea they can cripple my browser- fill it with obnoxious honking and blinking adds- and then on top of that I have to pay 200k of bandwidth to view an 8k page of text is abusive.
I went to adblockers shortly after the first blinking ads which took control of the mouse away.
October to December and March to April (sometimes as late as May). If you have natural gas heating, then you'll also have low electrical bills in January to February.
Pretty trivial looking at my electrical bills which show a graph of usage for the last 12 months and talking to my friends and neighbors comparing electrical bills over the years.
My basic pattern is 1x for July, August, September-- then 0.5x for May, June, October-- then 0.3x for december to april. We are having a cool september tho (73 at night in houston is crazy.. it's been 90 degrees some past years).
I'm down to 10.2 cpkwh with StarTex. For shorter term contracts (8 months) you can get 8.2 c phwh.
We actually have it pretty good electrical situation. Adjusted for inflation, electricity is cheaper than in the 1980s.
30% of the electrical needs for a huge state like Texas is pretty impressive. That would be 100 of the electrical needs of several smaller states combined.
No preference. Haven't had a virus in years (Since I was on the Amiga computer and "Something wonderful is happening... your computer has become alive.")
It focuses on paid but the free version quality is analogous.
AVG rates 3.5 stars. Not something I'd care to use.
I use a combination of malwarebytes and avast on my different machines currently.
I'm fairly unlikely to pay for anti-virus.
Because of the Windows 10 set up, my next computer will probably be a Linux machine. I've been noodling around the edges for about 8 years (including running a knoppix boot disk and going to a software stack that runs on linux and windows).
With tmobile, the same exact phone and data amounts cost substantially less with prepaid than with billed payment.
The salesperson tried to upsell me so I asked her what it would cost... about $30 more. I showed her and she gave a rueful smile and dropped the subject.
I'm retired and going to a Tmobile prepaid phone from Sprint has given me a free hotspot, a gig of data a month (which I never use even tho I play a lot of boom beach in odd places), and saved me $73 per month vs Sprint. I have unlimited music data too (from recognized music sources like pandora). I had "unlimited" data with Sprint but coverage gaps on my most common driving paths so music would go dead for a block or two anyway.
With Tmobile, I have unbelievably bad service inside the university center downstairs where we play boardgames. Signal is spotty upstairs. And at the dallas convention center hotel. I had to go above the 8th floor or outside the hotel to get service. Other phones have trouble there too but only downstairs. Thinking of getting a prepaid verizon phone for that one place since verizon has a repeater in the hotel.
The soviets had averaged over 1,000 executions per day combined with terror and treatment for those not executed which made life horrific.
Then these soldiers come along and kill the people who were terrorizing you. Hooray! Anything has to be better than what you had been experiencing right?
And then within days, you find out they are mass murdering people and dumping the bodies into mass graves. And instead of just killing 1 in 10 of you, they'd be happy to kill 10 in 10 of you.
Okay... so apparently something CAN be worse than the great purge under stalin.
I think he's referring to the RINO group. You know... like that screaming liberal Jeb Bush. (One of the 10 top conservative governors in the country as reported last year).
I don't have the link handy but tests showed that performance of a porche vs a tesla were within 2% and both in the high performance range.
Porsche was better at somethings (I think a few feet less stopping distance -- like 115 vs 118) and Tesla was better at other things due to its insane acceleration and obscenely low center of gravity.
If you google "compare Porsche Tesla" you can probably find the articles. One was from 2012 and the other was from 2014. The Tesla lost 2 feet of stopping distance between 2012 and 2014. As measured from when the foot depressed the pedal. But that may be in the margin of error between the different track surfaces.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroo...
The standard mileage rate for business is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile, including depreciation, insurance, repairs, tires, maintenance, gas and oil.
Note: based on hard data.
You're missing my point. I agree.. history shows the morality of the mob IS to murder and steal.
You want to be morally right and lose everything including your life or do you want to be alive and happy and still be incredibly wealthy compared to the rest of society?
The morality of 1% of the populace taking 40% of the rewards of society while others suffer, starve, and go homeless is obvious.
More to the point, the higher the percentage taken and the greater the number suffering in misery, the more dangerous it is for the 1%.
Bears make money, bulls make money, pigs get slaughtered.
I'm not advancing a political position- I'm giving a warning. When the top 1% takes too much, they will suffer.
Um. Yes there is.
See I can do the same thing.
Link it.
We have a distribution problem. Not a raw resource problem.
Everyone on earth could live better than u.s. citizens did in the 1950s. No one needs to starve. No one needs to be without shelter. No one needs to be without water. And really no one needs to be without entertainment or cheap intoxicants.
That, friends, and family is all most people in the world has needed to be happy for most of time.
The few rare birds with genius level talent could still excel. Everyone doesn't have to suffer.
But yea.. things are going to get ugly despite all that. Hoping it will be after I'm 6' under. Will do what I can tho while I'm here.
We either share voluntarily or we will share by force. Sharing by force usually goes too far.
And I repeat there is plenty of clean food, water, and food for the current and projected population of the earth for the next 30 years (even the new higher estimates). It won't be the same quality as 1970's food (much less 1950's food) but that's not required.
What we have is a distribution problem. We are literally destroying food which could be going to hungry people daily. Large amounts.
If you don't share, you will be forced to share. Once it gets that bad, your chance to control the process will be gone and you'll lose a lot more than if you were fair to begin with. It's your choice.
If you are in your 50s like me, this is all academic. The further you are under 50, the more this applies to you.
It's not irony.
Chinese noodle workers who make under $400 a year were replaced by robots.
Think you can live in the 1st world for $400 a year?
There is plenty of food, water, and resources for everyone.
We share or things get ugly asthey have over and over and over in the past.
Robot jobs are two to three orders of magnitude fewer than the industries they are replacing.
We'll either go to a basic income, or a revolution, or a tax on robotic labor, etc. etc.
You can have 30% of the population starving, homeless, and not expect civil unrest.
Microsoft is going to get more effective at this each pass.
Only losing lots of customers will stop this process from getting worse.
It would be different if it were not spying on you and serving ads to you using your own bandwidth but it is.
Best to throw your relatives to the wolves, let them develop a reasonable distain for microsoft and either go to apple or linux of some kind.
technically I should have said Panzerfaust. It also sounds cooler. But it's not common knowledge that is the name for german hand held anti-tank weapons.
The 88 was a very effective weapon. It started as an anti-aircraft gun and had an effective range of 14,860 m (16,250 yds) (~3 miles or ~4 kilometers). It could fire vertically for over a mile. The 88m (3.46") shells would go right thru sherman tanks as if they were made of tissue paper.
That being said, it was basically a failure as an anti-aircraft gun. it wasn't powerful enough to throw shells high enough. Then someone thought of turning it sideways.
No, the tanks were powerful enough to push trees over. Just like bulldozers can pull them down (and some "mere" trucks pull trees and stumps out of the ground). Unlike a truck, a sherman tank weight 66,800 pounds (30.3 tonnes; 29.8 long tons; 33.4 short tons). And had an engine powerful enough to push that weight along at 30 mph. The treads gave it incredible traction too.
Picture the hedge covered with heavy growth 15 to 30 feet high. Difficult to penetrate on foot- easy to hide in and defend.
Picture a german bazookaman behind the hedge ready to blow a hole in your soft underbelly.
Picture the teeth cutting 12" deep into the hedge before the tank starts to lift upwards.
Picture the heavy growth toppling onto the defenses, the top of the hedge being shaved off to become a wide dirt road.
Much harder to defend against the infantry following the tank through the new gap.
In the dallas fort worth airport hyatt many brands of phones get no reception at all. it's a joke.
It's annoying to go from the "modern world" back to the 1980s when you travel about 10 miles.
I measured the over under for individual developers. Within a few projects I could tell who would meet their estimate, who was padding their estimate, and most importantly the ones who never met their estimate.
It didn't matter how cool or neat the work was. What mattered was a predictable schedule. Corporate minded the padders a lot less than the ones who missed estimates or even the ones who made their estimates 90% of the time but missed it 10% of the time.
Based on experience, I'd go a little further.
"We have X months to get this project done. You have X weeks to explore the new technology and tell us if you can do it in 6 months. We'll expect a weekly report on your research and progress. If you can't we are not going to do the project."
The RUP methodology says to work your risks like new technology first. Don't spend 50 million bucks and then find out the linchpin of the project isn't even stable yet.
years ago I watched a shaky, dim release of a pirated film with silhouettes of people walking across the screen.
Fairly quickly pristine copies came out. I didn't see the point of camcorded. Somewhere in the world, there is a manager or a projectionist or a screener who is going to release a copy. Or 6 to 20 weeks later, a perfect copy from the bluray or DVD will come out.
Besides, i can see films on monday for $4.50 u.s. at the theater 4 miles from my house.
Are we anywhere near close to that for astronauts?
You have a couple hundred thousand people ready to go to mars and die.
Settling it is feasible.
I think the moon should come first. That will dramatically lower the cost of building and launching the mars ship.
If we could be on mars in 10 years- we SHOULD be.
I'd still mind but the idea they can cripple my browser- fill it with obnoxious honking and blinking adds- and then on top of that I have to pay 200k of bandwidth to view an 8k page of text is abusive.
I went to adblockers shortly after the first blinking ads which took control of the mouse away.
October to December and March to April (sometimes as late as May). If you have natural gas heating, then you'll also have low electrical bills in January to February.
Pretty trivial looking at my electrical bills which show a graph of usage for the last 12 months and talking to my friends and neighbors comparing electrical bills over the years.
My basic pattern is 1x for July, August, September-- then 0.5x for May, June, October-- then 0.3x for december to april. We are having a cool september tho (73 at night in houston is crazy.. it's been 90 degrees some past years).
I'm down to 10.2 cpkwh with StarTex. For shorter term contracts (8 months) you can get 8.2 c phwh.
We actually have it pretty good electrical situation. Adjusted for inflation, electricity is cheaper than in the 1980s.
30% of the electrical needs for a huge state like Texas is pretty impressive. That would be 100 of the electrical needs of several smaller states combined.
No preference. Haven't had a virus in years (Since I was on the Amiga computer and "Something wonderful is happening... your computer has become alive.")
Well, it's a fairly effective anti-virus for free.
If it cuts the number of free users without cutting their paying user base, then it's no loss to them.
However, I keep up on the most effective anti-virus and no longer use them as they were not in the top group last year.
Here's a current comparison for 2015.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...
It focuses on paid but the free version quality is analogous.
AVG rates 3.5 stars. Not something I'd care to use.
I use a combination of malwarebytes and avast on my different machines currently.
I'm fairly unlikely to pay for anti-virus.
Because of the Windows 10 set up, my next computer will probably be a Linux machine. I've been noodling around the edges for about 8 years (including running a knoppix boot disk and going to a software stack that runs on linux and windows).
With tmobile, the same exact phone and data amounts cost substantially less with prepaid than with billed payment.
The salesperson tried to upsell me so I asked her what it would cost... about $30 more. I showed her and she gave a rueful smile and dropped the subject.
I'm retired and going to a Tmobile prepaid phone from Sprint has given me a free hotspot, a gig of data a month (which I never use even tho I play a lot of boom beach in odd places), and saved me $73 per month vs Sprint. I have unlimited music data too (from recognized music sources like pandora). I had "unlimited" data with Sprint but coverage gaps on my most common driving paths so music would go dead for a block or two anyway.
With Tmobile, I have unbelievably bad service inside the university center downstairs where we play boardgames. Signal is spotty upstairs. And at the dallas convention center hotel. I had to go above the 8th floor or outside the hotel to get service. Other phones have trouble there too but only downstairs. Thinking of getting a prepaid verizon phone for that one place since verizon has a repeater in the hotel.
Things were terrible for the peasants. The peasants had no idea how bad the nazis were. No free flow of information.
So you are under a literally murderous regime. The "Great Purge" was only a couple years prior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The soviets had averaged over 1,000 executions per day combined with terror and treatment for those not executed which made life horrific.
Then these soldiers come along and kill the people who were terrorizing you. Hooray! Anything has to be better than what you had been experiencing right?
And then within days, you find out they are mass murdering people and dumping the bodies into mass graves. And instead of just killing 1 in 10 of you, they'd be happy to kill 10 in 10 of you.
Okay... so apparently something CAN be worse than the great purge under stalin.
There was a much more easy method than that.
Nazi's were greeted as liberators by russian peasants. Who they started slaughtering.
If they had treated the peasants decently, they would have conquered russia easily.
But it just wasn't in their nature.
I wish I could give you five mod points.
And remember.... Wear Sunscreen.
I think he's referring to the RINO group. You know... like that screaming liberal Jeb Bush. (One of the 10 top conservative governors in the country as reported last year).
I don't have the link handy but tests showed that performance of a porche vs a tesla were within 2% and both in the high performance range.
Porsche was better at somethings (I think a few feet less stopping distance -- like 115 vs 118) and Tesla was better at other things due to its insane acceleration and obscenely low center of gravity.
If you google "compare Porsche Tesla" you can probably find the articles. One was from 2012 and the other was from 2014. The Tesla lost 2 feet of stopping distance between 2012 and 2014. As measured from when the foot depressed the pedal. But that may be in the margin of error between the different track surfaces.