I call BS. Sweden may have a low overall population density but 85% of the population lives in urban areas(southern part of the country) Stockholm's metro area has more that 20% of the entire nations population. I doubt they have great broadband penetration in the rural areas up north.
Mr. Buffett has bought numerous companies who were forced to sell because of the inheritance tax including: Dairy Queen, Jordan's, Justin Industries, Star Furniture, Borsheim, Ben Bridge Jewelers, U.S. Liability, NetJets, R.C. Wiley, Flight Safety and Nebraska Furniture Mart.
I was not implying he is "predator of small businesses". He does not buy small business, they (small businesses) are just caught in the cross fire of the death taxes and more of them will be if it gets increased. I had not heard the arguement of the insurance companies, need to look into that. Whoever said that he supported Obama because of Capital Gains has not done a 1-minute google search to compare the two policies. I was just responding to the fact that I thought that was the wrong example a "tax" reason why Buffet would vote for Obama and to provide a better example. I am not trying to "smear" Buffet just provide some information that would give some insight into reasons why he would support a specific candidate.
Capital Gains is not the only tax and he does not pay that unless cashes out his stocks. He is in favor of raising inheritance tax, because he wants "to avoid a plutocracy."
The problem with that is Buffet makes a lot of money from buy up companies. If the inheritance tax is raise a lot of those companies would have to be sold or broken up when the owner's pass them to their children. That's where Buffet comes in and snaps up the companies for a deal.
A lot of people have not problem with this because the only example that is given is the Billionaire leaving Billions to his or her children. It effects a lot of small businesses especially farms, they can have a million dollars in net worth (that not a big farm at all) and the taxes could not be paid if the children were to take it over when there parents died.
Nvidia has the Tegra processor that is a SoC with a GPU and an Arm processor. I would love to see a Linux Netbook with this processor great graphics and HD support.
This x86 stuff is amazingly ridiculous. How long has Intel held the patent? They definitely has been shown to use it to create a monopoly. But Via has the Cyrix x86 license and Cyrix got that through reverse engineering and litigation. Transmeta uses x86 software emulation so Nvidia does have options if they want to get x86 compatibility.
"Why is there just one phone company and one cable company in most areas?"
My understanding is that you have to apply for a TV license per municipality. When I lived in DC you could have Comcast in one country or city and across the street would be Cox because that was a different county or city. The cable companies kind of colluded by saying I won't go in your area and you won't come in mine. This is one of the big roadblock for Verizon Fios/Fios TV.
One of the solution is to create a universal TV license for the whole nation. Cable companies would realize if Phone companies and other cable companies could take their market, they need to expand to get into other markets to compensate. More service providers should allow for better options. This isn't the grand solution but it is a step in the right direction, instead of doing nothing.
Some of the stories and experiences that I have heard are cultural and societal. One of my wife's friends was a 3rd or 4th teacher in Chicago. She was required to pass 90% of her class at the end of the year no matter how well they were doing. She said that over half of them could barely read and under 5% should have gone on to the next grade.
Parents are the key to a basic foundation. I worked with 5th and 6th graders in college and almost all of them had developmental issues because their mothers had drank or had done drugs while they were pregnant. These kids were 3-4 years behind but after spending time with them working on just basic math and english skills they improved dramatically. The only way the school system can help these kids is by becoming their parents. I personally don't want the government trying to become someones parent anymore than they already are.
I think one thing people discount is how diverse of a country we(US) are compared to European counties. Sweden only has 9M people in the whole country and the culture is basically homogeneous. I don't think it is as easy as saying look how they did it, lets do it that way.
I just started messing around with python and I am impressed with how easy it is to get started.
I looked over Django a couple of times and was just clueless. Is Django just a backend framework?
Do all the frontend UIs need to be done in html/xhtml? I couldn't see anything in the documentation about assisting with UI design.
Thanks
I would go with python was well it is really easy to mess around with and has pretty good documentation online.
One cool thing that encourages even me to learn new aspects of a language is combine it with other things you enjoy. I did that with learning about xml and python so I could parse the World of Warcraft armory. http://jerdking.blogspot.com/
If he enjoys working with his hands and likes robotics. I would suggest the http://www.arduino.cc/ It is a little standardized open source hardware platform that has a neat IDE and uses a modified C++ language. I think it is cool to show kids that programming can cause real world actions not just something on your PC screen(not that there is anything wrong with that)
The Fairness Doctrine applied to both liberal and conservative viewpoints, and anyone who says differently is a liar.
You are 100% correct. As a previous post said whether you like it or not, or whether it merits the popularity it has, "Conservative Talk Radio" dominates "Liberal Talk Radio", in listeners and in ad revenue. To make this "fair" the minority view would need to get air time at the expense of the majority. It may not be the intent(in the Legal sense) of the Fairness Doctrine to "targeted conservative viewpoints" but the reality of the situation is a bit different. If it was the other way around it would be the same thing.
Another repercussion of the fairness doctrine was that everything was boring and non-eventful. Radio stations did not want to try to balance major sets of opposing content so they just went with a whole bunch of bland content about nothing.
If your content doesn't say anything then it does not have to be balanced with anything else.
Why does this only apply to radio why not TV, Print Media and anything else under the sun?
I think he overestimated the speed at which this technology would grow. That article was written in 2003-4, he predicts that they will be rampant by 2008 and I have yet to see one of these kiosk at a mainstream restaurant, granted I never go to McD. The closest thing that matches that is the sandwich ordering system at Wawa gas stations and that is pretty cool.
I don't know if this is going to happen or not but countries adapt. Running around saying that this is going to cause massisive unemployment is on the edge of fear mongering. Why can't this be a good thing, a chance for a country to move past service based industry into a tech based industry. Guess I can't wait for my robotic overlords to be picking my stawberries.
If you refuse to incriminate yourself you can be declared a terrorist and shipped off to Gitmo to be tortured. As a US citizen you have a right to habeas corpus the Supreme Court upheld that in the case below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_v._Rumsfeld
Justice Scalia was one of the most ardent dissidents of this case.
All of these people are the smartest people in their field and to belittle them is sad. Half the crap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_v._Louisiana that goes before the Supreme Court shouldn't even be there. States and Congress should be deciding these things not 9 lifetime appointees who are not voted into office.
First thing I would do is Build a Workbench with them. Check out instructables.com and makezine.com there are plenty of plans.
Here is the link to a make podcast on a bench http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/07/make_podcast_weekend_projects.html
I would then setup an old PC with a dual boot linux/XP setup, just to cover all your bases.
If you are into Electronics and a little programming I would suggest getting an Arduino. http://www.arduino.cc/
To expand your electronic aspect of the lab I would get packs of resistors and Caps. Get a cheap soldering iron and DMM.
That's all I got for now hope that helps.
I remember when the rovers landed 4 years ago, everyone at work was checking the site for the first couple of weeks. We got great pictures but what new discoveries did we make. My biggest frustration was the news that they discovered some mineral formation that if it took place on earth would mean that water had been there. hello your not on earth.
They have the equipment give me some evidence for a friggin H20 molecule, something solid.
I hope they find something but I am not confident it will be anything that we matter.
I think that is what has changed in "Science" over the last 50-70 years. It is a career now. Fund is tied to organizations that have specific goals. Giving away information or contradiction your Organization leaves you without a job.
My wife and I are pretty casual player and we averaged about a level a week when the BC came out. I think leveling is so much more fun than the end game. The quests are interesting and give you goals that you can easily accomplish and the 5-man instances are pretty fun unless you have 2 hunters like me and my wife, haha.
It is amazing how much they have expanded the game at 70 now. Right before the BC came out I had only 1 or 2 epic, this time around I have almost all epics. Getting into a good guild is the key. Having a bunch of people that have similar goals allows you to accomplish even more in the short amount of time.
Yeah one of the big problems with this is the municipality licensing for TV. When I lived in DC I had in Cable company and 1 Telco and the telco was worthless because the phone lines were from the 40s. But the main problem was TV licensing, 500 feet from my apartment was a different county and a different cable company. Since you have to apply for a license in your community often whoever gets there first takes all because the other company does not want to waste time and money competing again someone else and they reciprocate by not coming into your market.
The solution would be a universal/nation TV license, pay one fee and you can deliver tv anywhere. This would expand markets and get rid of regional players because other companies can come into their region so they have to go into their competitors.
I think that would be a start but I think it die somewhere in the senate.
Yes it is. Some states/cities just have one refinery that supports the whole state/city, because they have specific blends that the state/city requires. Remember when that one went down in Phoenix a couple years ago, 8 hr lines for one tank of gas. The restriction on how many refineries can be built is ridiculous.
I don't know if this was covered, I did not have the time to read through 300+ comments.
I wonder if state municipalities would go after this company.
This is an example of were the cameras work too well. I think the person misses the big point though. These bureaucrats just view this as another revenue stream for them to spend and now when it works they don't know what to do.
Dallas traffic cams work too well
If state municipalities(not the police) know that this company is subverting their tax revenue then I would be they would be concerned and sue for some stupid reason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
Just from "skimming" that entry, domestic wiretapping seems to be a misused term.
I think that calling your moms in Tulsa is a horrible example because this bill is mainly used for international wiretapping with one point being in the US. It seems that the main point of contention is that the materials and equipment from that point in the US could be seized.
Like I said before I think a lot of privacy advocates running around saying domestic wiretapping makes it seems like you are being spied on your calls to pappajohns. I still don't know what kind of conclusion to come to myself in the end but I think a lot of people don't really know what the bill is in the first place.
Personally I think he is complaining about CNN not being liberal enough and throws in a Fox News is a bunch of idiots for his fans. But I don't understand this quote.
the political party in power being irrelevant incidentally; the job of the press is to maintain an adversarial relationship with the government at all times
I don't think that is true at all. That means the "press" is consistently try to mold the public perception of the current administration, whoever that maybe. What if you totally agree with the currently administration? I don't think it is possible to do the "News" without betraying some of your leanings. No matter who you are from the Daily Show to NPR to Fox News there is always going to be a bias.
I think trying to reconcile currently observed phenomena to past actions is the problem.
This species belongs to a very ancient group Sarcopterygii, the fleshy-finned fishes which is over 400 million years old. Fossils of fish identical to N. forsteri have been dated at over 100 million years which makes this species one of the oldest extant vertebrate species.
This paragraph makes multiple assumptions that are not scientifically provable. We have no idea genetically if the fish were related. How do we know that they are fleshy? And even less proof that the fish are 400 million and 100 million years old. How do we get those dates? We observe a current phenomena(some sort of Radiometric dating) and superimpose it back on to the past. If biology can change in 400 millions years why can't the decay of isotopes.
When hypothesizing about the past(Anthropology), Science can't answer all the questions, Should it even be considered science? Even laws that have proven to be true now, will always have the possibility to be proven false given more information and time
Welcome to the world of Science. This is not the same world that had Einstein and Bohr in it. I wonder if there is any genuine research being done anymore. Being a Scientist is a career now and you have to sell your research to someone. What happens when your research disagrees with the person who is funding you.
I used to work for a now defunct cooling solution company. We did cooling systems for speed sorters for Advantest and Delta Design.
One of the Intel engineers described it as they don't know exactly what speed the chips are going to be but they know the range, example 2.2-2.6 and it is normally distributed across that range. Whenever a new speed lets say 2.8 comes out that means the center of that range has shifted up. We did a lot of interesting stuff, watching those speed sorters run was truly amazing.
I used to work for Kryotech by the way.
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I call BS. Sweden may have a low overall population density but 85% of the population lives in urban areas(southern part of the country) Stockholm's metro area has more that 20% of the entire nations population. I doubt they have great broadband penetration in the rural areas up north.
Chewy?
Daylight saving time is not almost upon us, it is almost over.
Mr. Buffett has bought numerous companies who were forced to sell because of the inheritance tax including: Dairy Queen, Jordan's, Justin Industries, Star Furniture, Borsheim, Ben Bridge Jewelers, U.S. Liability, NetJets, R.C. Wiley, Flight Safety and Nebraska Furniture Mart. I was not implying he is "predator of small businesses". He does not buy small business, they (small businesses) are just caught in the cross fire of the death taxes and more of them will be if it gets increased. I had not heard the arguement of the insurance companies, need to look into that. Whoever said that he supported Obama because of Capital Gains has not done a 1-minute google search to compare the two policies. I was just responding to the fact that I thought that was the wrong example a "tax" reason why Buffet would vote for Obama and to provide a better example. I am not trying to "smear" Buffet just provide some information that would give some insight into reasons why he would support a specific candidate.
Capital Gains is not the only tax and he does not pay that unless cashes out his stocks.
He is in favor of raising inheritance tax, because he wants "to avoid a plutocracy."
The problem with that is Buffet makes a lot of money from buy up companies. If the inheritance tax is raise a lot of those companies would have to be sold or broken up when the owner's pass them to their children. That's where Buffet comes in and snaps up the companies for a deal.
A lot of people have not problem with this because the only example that is given is the Billionaire leaving Billions to his or her children. It effects a lot of small businesses especially farms, they can have a million dollars in net worth (that not a big farm at all) and the taxes could not be paid if the children were to take it over when there parents died.
Nvidia has the Tegra processor that is a SoC with a GPU and an Arm processor. I would love to see a Linux Netbook with this processor great graphics and HD support.
This x86 stuff is amazingly ridiculous. How long has Intel held the patent? They definitely has been shown to use it to create a monopoly. But Via has the Cyrix x86 license and Cyrix got that through reverse engineering and litigation. Transmeta uses x86 software emulation so Nvidia does have options if they want to get x86 compatibility.
"Why is there just one phone company and one cable company in most areas?"
My understanding is that you have to apply for a TV license per municipality. When I lived in DC you could have Comcast in one country or city and across the street would be Cox because that was a different county or city. The cable companies kind of colluded by saying I won't go in your area and you won't come in mine. This is one of the big roadblock for Verizon Fios/Fios TV.
One of the solution is to create a universal TV license for the whole nation. Cable companies would realize if Phone companies and other cable companies could take their market, they need to expand to get into other markets to compensate. More service providers should allow for better options. This isn't the grand solution but it is a step in the right direction, instead of doing nothing.
Some of the stories and experiences that I have heard are cultural and societal. One of my wife's friends was a 3rd or 4th teacher in Chicago. She was required to pass 90% of her class at the end of the year no matter how well they were doing. She said that over half of them could barely read and under 5% should have gone on to the next grade.
Parents are the key to a basic foundation. I worked with 5th and 6th graders in college and almost all of them had developmental issues because their mothers had drank or had done drugs while they were pregnant. These kids were 3-4 years behind but after spending time with them working on just basic math and english skills they improved dramatically. The only way the school system can help these kids is by becoming their parents. I personally don't want the government trying to become someones parent anymore than they already are.
I think one thing people discount is how diverse of a country we(US) are compared to European counties. Sweden only has 9M people in the whole country and the culture is basically homogeneous. I don't think it is as easy as saying look how they did it, lets do it that way.
I just started messing around with python and I am impressed with how easy it is to get started. I looked over Django a couple of times and was just clueless. Is Django just a backend framework? Do all the frontend UIs need to be done in html/xhtml? I couldn't see anything in the documentation about assisting with UI design. Thanks
I would go with python was well it is really easy to mess around with and has pretty good documentation online.
One cool thing that encourages even me to learn new aspects of a language is combine it with other things you enjoy. I did that with learning about xml and python so I could parse the World of Warcraft armory. http://jerdking.blogspot.com/
If he enjoys working with his hands and likes robotics. I would suggest the http://www.arduino.cc/ It is a little standardized open source hardware platform that has a neat IDE and uses a modified C++ language. I think it is cool to show kids that programming can cause real world actions not just something on your PC screen(not that there is anything wrong with that)
You are 100% correct. As a previous post said whether you like it or not, or whether it merits the popularity it has, "Conservative Talk Radio" dominates "Liberal Talk Radio", in listeners and in ad revenue. To make this "fair" the minority view would need to get air time at the expense of the majority. It may not be the intent(in the Legal sense) of the Fairness Doctrine to "targeted conservative viewpoints" but the reality of the situation is a bit different. If it was the other way around it would be the same thing.
Another repercussion of the fairness doctrine was that everything was boring and non-eventful. Radio stations did not want to try to balance major sets of opposing content so they just went with a whole bunch of bland content about nothing.
If your content doesn't say anything then it does not have to be balanced with anything else.
Why does this only apply to radio why not TV, Print Media and anything else under the sun?
I think he overestimated the speed at which this technology would grow. That article was written in 2003-4, he predicts that they will be rampant by 2008 and I have yet to see one of these kiosk at a mainstream restaurant, granted I never go to McD. The closest thing that matches that is the sandwich ordering system at Wawa gas stations and that is pretty cool.
I don't know if this is going to happen or not but countries adapt. Running around saying that this is going to cause massisive unemployment is on the edge of fear mongering. Why can't this be a good thing, a chance for a country to move past service based industry into a tech based industry. Guess I can't wait for my robotic overlords to be picking my stawberries.
Justice Scalia was one of the most ardent dissidents of this case.
Someone stated that these judges are going off of their hearts not there minds I would totally disaggree with that. There is a distinct split in philosophy between the two groups here on all of these issues over the last couple weeks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution
All of these people are the smartest people in their field and to belittle them is sad. Half the crap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_v._Louisiana that goes before the Supreme Court shouldn't even be there. States and Congress should be deciding these things not 9 lifetime appointees who are not voted into office.
First thing I would do is Build a Workbench with them. Check out instructables.com and makezine.com there are plenty of plans. Here is the link to a make podcast on a bench http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/07/make_podcast_weekend_projects.html I would then setup an old PC with a dual boot linux/XP setup, just to cover all your bases. If you are into Electronics and a little programming I would suggest getting an Arduino. http://www.arduino.cc/ To expand your electronic aspect of the lab I would get packs of resistors and Caps. Get a cheap soldering iron and DMM. That's all I got for now hope that helps.
I remember when the rovers landed 4 years ago, everyone at work was checking the site for the first couple of weeks. We got great pictures but what new discoveries did we make. My biggest frustration was the news that they discovered some mineral formation that if it took place on earth would mean that water had been there. hello your not on earth.
They have the equipment give me some evidence for a friggin H20 molecule, something solid. I hope they find something but I am not confident it will be anything that we matter.
I think that is what has changed in "Science" over the last 50-70 years. It is a career now. Fund is tied to organizations that have specific goals. Giving away information or contradiction your Organization leaves you without a job.
My wife and I are pretty casual player and we averaged about a level a week when the BC came out. I think leveling is so much more fun than the end game. The quests are interesting and give you goals that you can easily accomplish and the 5-man instances are pretty fun unless you have 2 hunters like me and my wife, haha.
It is amazing how much they have expanded the game at 70 now. Right before the BC came out I had only 1 or 2 epic, this time around I have almost all epics. Getting into a good guild is the key. Having a bunch of people that have similar goals allows you to accomplish even more in the short amount of time.
Yeah one of the big problems with this is the municipality licensing for TV. When I lived in DC I had in Cable company and 1 Telco and the telco was worthless because the phone lines were from the 40s. But the main problem was TV licensing, 500 feet from my apartment was a different county and a different cable company. Since you have to apply for a license in your community often whoever gets there first takes all because the other company does not want to waste time and money competing again someone else and they reciprocate by not coming into your market.
The solution would be a universal/nation TV license, pay one fee and you can deliver tv anywhere. This would expand markets and get rid of regional players because other companies can come into their region so they have to go into their competitors. I think that would be a start but I think it die somewhere in the senate.
Yes it is. Some states/cities just have one refinery that supports the whole state/city, because they have specific blends that the state/city requires. Remember when that one went down in Phoenix a couple years ago, 8 hr lines for one tank of gas. The restriction on how many refineries can be built is ridiculous.
I don't know if this was covered, I did not have the time to read through 300+ comments.
I wonder if state municipalities would go after this company.
This is an example of were the cameras work too well. I think the person misses the big point though. These bureaucrats just view this as another revenue stream for them to spend and now when it works they don't know what to do. Dallas traffic cams work too well
If state municipalities(not the police) know that this company is subverting their tax revenue then I would be they would be concerned and sue for some stupid reason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act Just from "skimming" that entry, domestic wiretapping seems to be a misused term. I think that calling your moms in Tulsa is a horrible example because this bill is mainly used for international wiretapping with one point being in the US. It seems that the main point of contention is that the materials and equipment from that point in the US could be seized. Like I said before I think a lot of privacy advocates running around saying domestic wiretapping makes it seems like you are being spied on your calls to pappajohns. I still don't know what kind of conclusion to come to myself in the end but I think a lot of people don't really know what the bill is in the first place.
I don't think that is true at all. That means the "press" is consistently try to mold the public perception of the current administration, whoever that maybe. What if you totally agree with the currently administration? I don't think it is possible to do the "News" without betraying some of your leanings. No matter who you are from the Daily Show to NPR to Fox News there is always going to be a bias.
This species belongs to a very ancient group Sarcopterygii, the fleshy-finned fishes which is over 400 million years old. Fossils of fish identical to N. forsteri have been dated at over 100 million years which makes this species one of the oldest extant vertebrate species.
This paragraph makes multiple assumptions that are not scientifically provable. We have no idea genetically if the fish were related. How do we know that they are fleshy? And even less proof that the fish are 400 million and 100 million years old. How do we get those dates? We observe a current phenomena(some sort of Radiometric dating) and superimpose it back on to the past. If biology can change in 400 millions years why can't the decay of isotopes.
When hypothesizing about the past(Anthropology), Science can't answer all the questions, Should it even be considered science? Even laws that have proven to be true now, will always have the possibility to be proven false given more information and time
Welcome to the world of Science. This is not the same world that had Einstein and Bohr in it. I wonder if there is any genuine research being done anymore. Being a Scientist is a career now and you have to sell your research to someone. What happens when your research disagrees with the person who is funding you.
I used to work for a now defunct cooling solution company. We did cooling systems for speed sorters for Advantest and Delta Design. One of the Intel engineers described it as they don't know exactly what speed the chips are going to be but they know the range, example 2.2-2.6 and it is normally distributed across that range. Whenever a new speed lets say 2.8 comes out that means the center of that range has shifted up. We did a lot of interesting stuff, watching those speed sorters run was truly amazing. I used to work for Kryotech by the way.