He is a massively multi-billionaire. What billionaire would not oppose the inheritance tax?
Some form of inheritance tax is required because not having just encourages hoarding of capital, which is bad for the national economy in the long term.
Or, seeing how my house is energy star certified and there is less outdoor light in the winter (therefore lights are used MORE in winter than summer), you are just wrong and heat from incandescent lights is near 100% wasted energy.
Ok then explain this. I have electric baseboard heat. That is my baseboard heaters convert electricity to heat via resistance at close to 100% efficiency.
By your logic, since the incandescent lights are electric and my heat is 100% resistive electrixc then switching from incandescents to CFLs during the winder would result in a 0% energy savings.
If that is the case then why did my power bill go down by about 20 dollars a month despite the average temperature remaining consistent at about minus 10 C?
All the movies available for download are old... we're talking like already-past-VOD-old, which is about 2-3 months older than DVD release. As in these movies have all been on DVD for 4 or more months.
When are the movie execs going to realize that PPV and PTD (pay to download) are only going to really take off when you can download the movie the same day it comes out on DVD?
Downloading and/or VOD means less distributions costs for distributor, faster and cheaper movie for customers. If they decreased the number of DVDs produced, and released VOD and downloads at the same time, they would likely see higher sales and profits,and the customers would be more happy too.
In order for your post to make any sense, the heat would have to first TRAVEL DOWN ABOUT 10 FEET before it encounters the 30 degree floor temp. difference.
All the air throughout that 10 feet is room temp (20-25) degrees C.
So the light heat has two choices... flow UP through the roof, where the outside temp is 0 degrees or less, or down through the room, where it's 20 degrees or more. That means DOUBLE the heat will be lost through the roof.
Also, Dr. Einstein, HEAT doesn't rise, HOT AIR RISES. Any heat from the light that DOES travel down through the lower differential, is juts going to heat the air and CAUSE IT TO RISE ANYWAY.
Modern fighter jets are aerodynamically unstable by design. A human can not fly them alone, the computer has to correct the flight path hundreds of times a second.
The flight control software thus most certainly *does* have to keep the plane "stable".
After all, there are many decorative lights that will look simply horrendous with incandescent light bulbs.
So, become the inventor then of the "Decorative compact florescent' then, and make your million.
Do you HONESTLY think these gaps will not be filled, now that the government has effectively legislated this new competitive market into existence? Before, no one would have bought your decorative bulbs since they were more expensive. Now, they either buy them, or buy the ugly ones, or find some black market ones and hope to not get fined.
If you can't cache content, then you can't search it.
You have to copy content to your local machine to index it, and to be abel to select results with context. Hell, you have to copy it to *VIEW* it.
The courts and the law need to wake up and realize you can't do anything with a computer without copying it a dozen times. 25% or more of what your computer does is copy things from one place (network, hard drive, memory, external media) to another.
When you do the math, if all you're trying to do by buying online is saving the tax, you'll be in for a rude surprise with today's shipping charges.
The reason I buy online has nothing to do with tax. The shipping always cancels out any tax savings. The reason is because local retailers in most parts of North America still haven't woken up to the global economy... why in god's name would should I pay $50 for widget X, when it is selling for $30 in NY with $10 shipping? Tax is next to irrelevant - it's globalization that drives internet commerce.
Wherever in the world that item is cheapest, it is available to *anyone* at that price now.
I, like I imagine most people on here (and anyone who has the ability to "work from home"), am connected to the Internet all day at work as well.
Why would people using the web at home cause it to go down faster than people using it at work?
If anything, some people's crappy ISPs that over-allocate their bandwidth would be clogged - not "the Internet", whatever that is supposed to mean.
The main pipes would not be seeing much more traffic than usual. Sure, people's VPN would use a bit more, but do you really think most VPN traffic uses more bandwidth than bittorrent/WOW/etc, all of which would have to be turned off since the traffic would be booted off of their VPN?
Well you must have a bad batch, I have had every light on my house running on CFLs for over 2 years now, not a single burnout. They should have had a 5 year warranty on them - why didn't you pursue it?
As far as mercury content - I suggest you read up. Not only is the amount 1/5 of that found in a common watch battery, because you only replace the bulbs every 5-6 years you're using less mercury than someone who buys one AA battery in 5 years :
RTFE (Read The F*ckin EULA). The license restriction is simply that, if you boot Vista Home etc. in a VM, you are not allowed to use it to play DRM'ed content, specifically, HDCP protected content.
That is it. It's that simple. And really, a perfectly reasonable justification. Weather you agree with DRM or not (I don't), you can't argue that it would not be absolutely retarded legality and engineering wise to allow a DRM system that relies on things supposed to be kept secret inside a VM.
It seems like a strange state of affairs when a magazine can take people to space, but the USA can't.
I'm not even sure what that sentence is supposed to mean... "The USA can't".. do you mean the US goverment can't? Because the US government would still be funding the trip, so for all intents and purposes, it *IS* doing the sending.
What is the difference between the US goverment contracting out spaceflight to private companies, and it contracting out the construction of military equipment to private companies? The taxpayer still ends up footing the bill... doing i privately however usually ends up being cheaper in the long term (even after you factor the massive pork into it).
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He is a massively multi-billionaire. What billionaire would not oppose the inheritance tax?
Some form of inheritance tax is required because not having just encourages hoarding of capital, which is bad for the national economy in the long term.
I use AVG as well. Just wondering why you were 'disappointed' by the report?
At 96.37%, IMO they did very well. Especially when you consider the cost ($0).
XML means it is readable by humans. You don't even NEED any kind of a program to get the text.
Or, seeing how my house is energy star certified and there is less outdoor light in the winter (therefore lights are used MORE in winter than summer), you are just wrong and heat from incandescent lights is near 100% wasted energy.
Accum's Razor.
From the looks of that vid, one quick roundhouse kick would put that robot's face in the sand.
He'll I'd hate to see what Jack Bauer could do to it!
Ok then explain this. I have electric baseboard heat. That is my baseboard heaters convert electricity to heat via resistance at close to 100% efficiency.
By your logic, since the incandescent lights are electric and my heat is 100% resistive electrixc then switching from incandescents to CFLs during the winder would result in a 0% energy savings.
If that is the case then why did my power bill go down by about 20 dollars a month despite the average temperature remaining consistent at about minus 10 C?
I am awaiting your explanation.
All the movies available for download are old... we're talking like already-past-VOD-old, which is about 2-3 months older than DVD release. As in these movies have all been on DVD for 4 or more months.
When are the movie execs going to realize that PPV and PTD (pay to download) are only going to really take off when you can download the movie the same day it comes out on DVD?
Downloading and/or VOD means less distributions costs for distributor, faster and cheaper movie for customers. If they decreased the number of DVDs produced, and released VOD and downloads at the same time, they would likely see higher sales and profits,and the customers would be more happy too.
Bulls$it.
In order for your post to make any sense, the heat would have to first TRAVEL DOWN ABOUT 10 FEET before it encounters the 30 degree floor temp. difference.
All the air throughout that 10 feet is room temp (20-25) degrees C.
So the light heat has two choices... flow UP through the roof, where the outside temp is 0 degrees or less, or down through the room, where it's 20 degrees or more. That means DOUBLE the heat will be lost through the roof.
Also, Dr. Einstein, HEAT doesn't rise, HOT AIR RISES. Any heat from the light that DOES travel down through the lower differential, is juts going to heat the air and CAUSE IT TO RISE ANYWAY.
Modern fighter jets are aerodynamically unstable by design. A human can not fly them alone, the computer has to correct the flight path hundreds of times a second.
The flight control software thus most certainly *does* have to keep the plane "stable".
Remember lights are normally where - on the ceiling. Warm air rises - rises right out of your house.
There's a reason heat sources are usually floor mounted.
Most heat generated by incandescent lights in the winter will be outside the room before it has any effect.
After all, there are many decorative lights that will look simply horrendous with incandescent light bulbs.
So, become the inventor then of the "Decorative compact florescent' then, and make your million.
Do you HONESTLY think these gaps will not be filled, now that the government has effectively legislated this new competitive market into existence? Before, no one would have bought your decorative bulbs since they were more expensive. Now, they either buy them, or buy the ugly ones, or find some black market ones and hope to not get fined.
Around here, technology is the answer to EVERYTHING.
You would think you would have learned that by now.
For example - I hear kids in Africa don't have enough food to eat or water to drink? Send them cheap laptops!
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If you can't cache content, then you can't search it.
You have to copy content to your local machine to index it, and to be abel to select results with context. Hell, you have to copy it to *VIEW* it.
The courts and the law need to wake up and realize you can't do anything with a computer without copying it a dozen times. 25% or more of what your computer does is copy things from one place (network, hard drive, memory, external media) to another.
UPS / FedEX, that's who.
When you do the math, if all you're trying to do by buying online is saving the tax, you'll be in for a rude surprise with today's shipping charges.
The reason I buy online has nothing to do with tax. The shipping always cancels out any tax savings. The reason is because local retailers in most parts of North America still haven't woken up to the global economy... why in god's name would should I pay $50 for widget X, when it is selling for $30 in NY with $10 shipping? Tax is next to irrelevant - it's globalization that drives internet commerce.
Wherever in the world that item is cheapest, it is available to *anyone* at that price now.
I, like I imagine most people on here (and anyone who has the ability to "work from home"), am connected to the Internet all day at work as well.
Why would people using the web at home cause it to go down faster than people using it at work?
If anything, some people's crappy ISPs that over-allocate their bandwidth would be clogged - not "the Internet", whatever that is supposed to mean.
The main pipes would not be seeing much more traffic than usual. Sure, people's VPN would use a bit more, but do you really think most VPN traffic uses more bandwidth than bittorrent/WOW/etc, all of which would have to be turned off since the traffic would be booted off of their VPN?
Well you must have a bad batch, I have had every light on my house running on CFLs for over 2 years now, not a single burnout. They should have had a 5 year warranty on them - why didn't you pursue it?
As far as mercury content - I suggest you read up. Not only is the amount 1/5 of that found in a common watch battery, because you only replace the bulbs every 5-6 years you're using less mercury than someone who buys one AA battery in 5 years :
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/energystar/english/consumer s/questions-answers.cfm?attr=4#mercury
Inputs ARE WHAT CAUSE THE OUTPUTS.
CO2 emimssions don't come from nowhere. The majority come from power plants (yes... this figure dwarfs automobile emissions).
As long as the majority of our power still comes from coal and oil, less power used == less emissions. It's not rocket science.
People who don't use CFL's in this day and age IMO are just being anally retarded.
Modern CFLs are cheaper for the consumer, better for the environment, and indistinguishable from incandescents when placed in any enclosed fixture.
Adobe's market cap is not even 1/3 of Apples. And Apples is barely 1/2 of Microsoft's.
Adobe is but a drop in the bucket compared to Microsoft. Keep dreaming.
I imagine they're talking about the new "Debbie Does Dallas" series(es), especially given that Vivid didn't make the original series.
RTFE (Read The F*ckin EULA). The license restriction is simply that, if you boot Vista Home etc. in a VM, you are not allowed to use it to play DRM'ed content, specifically, HDCP protected content.
That is it. It's that simple. And really, a perfectly reasonable justification. Weather you agree with DRM or not (I don't), you can't argue that it would not be absolutely retarded legality and engineering wise to allow a DRM system that relies on things supposed to be kept secret inside a VM.
It seems like a strange state of affairs when a magazine can take people to space, but the USA can't.
I'm not even sure what that sentence is supposed to mean... "The USA can't".. do you mean the US goverment can't? Because the US government would still be funding the trip, so for all intents and purposes, it *IS* doing the sending.
What is the difference between the US goverment contracting out spaceflight to private companies, and it contracting out the construction of military equipment to private companies? The taxpayer still ends up footing the bill... doing i privately however usually ends up being cheaper in the long term (even after you factor the massive pork into it).
http://www.google.com/ig ??
In fact it looks more cluttered and less flexible to me.
Slashvertisement? I think so.
I thought it'd be pretty obvious (why would I say both 5v and 1000 mv, which is 1v ?)