Bzzz. Wrong. Flawed logic. Technology brings cool applications. Cool applications bring users. Users drive advertising. Not one person I know uses Google for their see their latest "cool ads", then realize that there is some silly search engine there.
Here's a hit of the cluestick for you: Google is responsible to shareholders. Internet search does not generate revenue. Ads do. So they lace their search with ads, they sell ads to anyone that will buy them... hell, they purchase Doubleclick to get more ads.
One nice thing about Live.com, at least in my humble opinion, is that people haven't gamed the hell out of it. People have SEO'd the crap out of meaningless pages on google, so within the first five to ten results for any given search, I find crap. I haven't seen that with Live.
I try and mix it up, I still use Google a lot but unless they find a way to get people to stop gaming the system, I think Google will have some problems. Seeing pages filled with banner ads in your first ten results for an engineering or computer science topic is disheartening.
... The need for Baptism? Being "born again"? As Paul wrote, the "washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit"? Jesus literally calls coming to faith a "second birth" (John 3:3), that birth replacing the sinful birth...
I'm not arguing you turning away. My point is, how can you expect a religion to remove something rooted deep in its theology, just for your comfort? That is essentially what your first post said.
Then I'm sure you are familiar with Psalm 51:5, Romans 5:12-14,18-21? All of which state humans are sinful from conception, and sin is passed on from one generation to the next? I'm sure you have.
as far as I'm concerned, adhering to Christianity means that you must ask God to forgive you for having been born human.
Not for being born human, but forgiveness from sin. There's a subtlety in there you are missing.
Thanks for taking his words completely out of context. I'm not a catholic, but come on.
Practices like freezing embryos, suppression of embryos in multiple pregnancies, embryonic stem cell research, the prospect of human cloning and artificial insemination outside the body had "shattered the barriers meant to protect human dignity," he said.
so (1) he said nothing about cesarean sections. And (2) he doesn't condemn all forms of artificial insemination. His problem with external inseminations is the common practice of fertilizing multiple embryos and then only keeping one. RTFA before you make a complete ass of yourself.
Get rid of the doctrine of original sin, and then we can talk.
Good luck, it's a concept laid out pretty clearly in the Bible.
You can disagree with catholicism, you can disagree with Christianity, but asking a group to disavow a belief just to make you feel "comfortable"... that is pretty bold. If you had any familiarity with the book they follow then you'd understand how silly that sounds.
My company has tripled in size over the last 2 years.
Yeah. People throw their hands in the air over this incoming recession, and sure the stock market is having some problems, but so many areas of this country are still doing well. The company I'm working for is hiring like mad (any aerospace engineers looking for work? let me know). Within my house, which used to be out in the country surrounded by fields, there are no less than five new housing developments that sprung up in the last year... and yes, they are still being constructed. For all the doom and gloom, business is booming in my world.
(and "recessions" aren't all bad... the corrections that are made often empower people to get lower interest loans, refinance debt to pay it off quicker, and often provide incentives to allow for businesses to grow)
I bought a cheap ass HP notebook ($300), the only thing I did to it was add a gig of ram ($30) so that instead of 512M of shared RAM between the computer and video card it now has 1.5G. I think this is the trick. People are buying cheap hardware and don't have enough RAM. My computer sings:) I am pleased with Vista. One of the first things I did was partition space for XP and try to run them side by side. I do a lot of computationally intensive programming (I'm an engineer) and some gaming. I really couldn't tell a speed difference between XP and Vista if I tried. So there was no reason to keep the XP partition and a few niceties that came with the Vista one.
The formula for CW bandwidth is the bits per second (BPS) times a shape factor, K. CW speed is generally in words per minute, the word "PARIS" is the general word benchmark, 5 letters with 50 bits of information. 50/60 = 0.83 bits/second.
With a shape factor K=4, at 10 WPM (relatively slow), the signal width is about 40hz, wider than PSK31. At 25wpm (what I personally find comfortable) it's about 100hz. More experienced practitioners can speak even faster:)
The shape factor is a function of the wave modulating the carrier... and in reality could be much higher, or possibly a bit lower.
(this information can be found a number of places, including here)
OK, I'll use my own numbers. I live in Alabama. I'm an engineer with a Master's a few years out of school who does fairly well.
Federal income tax bracket: 25%
State income tax bracket: 4.8%
State sales tax: 8%
State property tax: 0.4% of property value... in my case, 0.8% of gross income
Health care (I pay, family of 4) as a function of gross: 4.6%
Remember the income taxes are based off of gross **adjusted** income, and sales tax based off of what you actually spend on consumables in-state (not your mortgage, credit card debt, student loans, etc.) so say the basis for that is 25% of your gross income. Your total tax basis is then 25+4.8+8*.25+0.8+4.6 = 36.4% of gross, and that is not accounting for the plethora of tax reductions most people have (kids? charitable donations? mortgage payments? tuition payments?). That's nothing compared to what most European countries pay, and I've covered your heath insurance. You're welcome.
and yet we get no health care. they do.
I got heath care. I pay about $250 a month, less than 5% of my gross income. If these other countries have to charge double, even the triple of taxation of the US to provide health care, then I want none of that.
there's a reason why my EU stocks outperform my US stocks. So, that aside, I'd rather have privacy rights, no BSA gestapo on my door, and do better.
Good luck. My foreign stocks did well last year, but so did my American stocks. In fact my best performer was an American mutual fund. Privacy rights? Good luck. America has it better than a number of nations who have cameras at every turn. I'm on a mailing list of people who build rockets as a hobby, and it's fairly straightforward to build small motors in the US. However in England, and many other parts of the EU, any amount of Ammonium Perchlorate (for instance) is illegal without a license. There are other heavy restrictions on much more benign compounds as well that aren't or are minimally regulated here in the states and other 'sane' countries. Welcome to the nanny-state.
I have no broadband choices (I connect at 26.4kbps) but at least I get 0 over-the-air-channels. All right! Problem solved.
Just because you don't get TV channels DOES NOT mean this won't work for you. It depends on bandwidth and encoding.
For example, in amateur radio, when voice communications are insufficient, Morse code (much narrower badwidth) tends to work over great distances, and when Morse doesn't work a digital mode like PSK31 (narrower) works even better, and often at lower powers.
It will really come down to the bandwidth and power output, it always does:) But just because you don't get TV (which is very wide bandwidth, analog video and voice) doesn't mean you won't get a digital internet connection.
Don't you mean GNU/Linux? There is already a "theater" fo GNU/Linux: Freedom. We are not just fighting for technical superiority, we are fighting for the freedom of the people--just like a secure e-voting machine would, by the way of allowing fair and efficient election to be held.
Because 99% of us don't give a crap about RMS's holy war.
We just want to get our work done.
(and re: your followup to this thread, my Vista notebook has greater than 3 months uptime... 1 reboot in 6 months of owning it)
Commercial banking has never been that high profit. They tend to invest conservatively. Think about it, how big a return (if any) do banks give nowadays? Maybe half a percent, 1%? Only the online ones are doing more. So long as you beat inflation (~2.5-3% per annum) you are turning a profit, so banks tend to be conservative.
I sold my C64 on eBay this week. I shipped three packages of approximately equal weight: the C64 console, the disk drive, and a box of disks and accessories. The price to ship each of the boxes via UPS was approximately half the price of USPS ground ($10-12 v. $18-25). I shipped them all UPS.
And yet, the EU which still outperforms the US on real pay
Factor in taxes and it swings back in the US's favor. Majority of the middle class is paying 25% or less federal tax, even less on capital gains, and less than 10% state tax, before deductions (mortgage, etc.). Tell me again, how many European countries are paying in excess of 50% of their net to the state?
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Bzzz. Wrong. Flawed logic. Technology brings cool applications. Cool applications bring users. Users drive advertising. Not one person I know uses Google for their see their latest "cool ads", then realize that there is some silly search engine there.
... hell, they purchase Doubleclick to get more ads.
Here's a hit of the cluestick for you: Google is responsible to shareholders. Internet search does not generate revenue. Ads do. So they lace their search with ads, they sell ads to anyone that will buy them
DING DING DING DING DING!!!!
it's what the smart ones do in Texas...
One nice thing about Live.com, at least in my humble opinion, is that people haven't gamed the hell out of it. People have SEO'd the crap out of meaningless pages on google, so within the first five to ten results for any given search, I find crap. I haven't seen that with Live.
I try and mix it up, I still use Google a lot but unless they find a way to get people to stop gaming the system, I think Google will have some problems. Seeing pages filled with banner ads in your first ten results for an engineering or computer science topic is disheartening.
... The need for Baptism? Being "born again"? As Paul wrote, the "washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit"? Jesus literally calls coming to faith a "second birth" (John 3:3), that birth replacing the sinful birth ...
I'm not arguing you turning away. My point is, how can you expect a religion to remove something rooted deep in its theology, just for your comfort? That is essentially what your first post said.
David and the Apostle Paul both spell it out pretty clearly.
Then I'm sure you are familiar with Psalm 51:5, Romans 5:12-14,18-21? All of which state humans are sinful from conception, and sin is passed on from one generation to the next? I'm sure you have.
as far as I'm concerned, adhering to Christianity means that you must ask God to forgive you for having been born human.
Not for being born human, but forgiveness from sin. There's a subtlety in there you are missing.
Thanks for taking his words completely out of context. I'm not a catholic, but come on.
Practices like freezing embryos, suppression of embryos in multiple pregnancies, embryonic stem cell research, the prospect of human cloning and artificial insemination outside the body had "shattered the barriers meant to protect human dignity," he said.
so (1) he said nothing about cesarean sections. And (2) he doesn't condemn all forms of artificial insemination. His problem with external inseminations is the common practice of fertilizing multiple embryos and then only keeping one. RTFA before you make a complete ass of yourself.
Get rid of the doctrine of original sin, and then we can talk.
... that is pretty bold. If you had any familiarity with the book they follow then you'd understand how silly that sounds.
Good luck, it's a concept laid out pretty clearly in the Bible.
You can disagree with catholicism, you can disagree with Christianity, but asking a group to disavow a belief just to make you feel "comfortable"
My company has tripled in size over the last 2 years.
... and yes, they are still being constructed. For all the doom and gloom, business is booming in my world.
... the corrections that are made often empower people to get lower interest loans, refinance debt to pay it off quicker, and often provide incentives to allow for businesses to grow)
Yeah. People throw their hands in the air over this incoming recession, and sure the stock market is having some problems, but so many areas of this country are still doing well. The company I'm working for is hiring like mad (any aerospace engineers looking for work? let me know). Within my house, which used to be out in the country surrounded by fields, there are no less than five new housing developments that sprung up in the last year
(and "recessions" aren't all bad
Where do you live? and what field?
Seriously, I'm curious.
I bought a cheap ass HP notebook ($300), the only thing I did to it was add a gig of ram ($30) so that instead of 512M of shared RAM between the computer and video card it now has 1.5G. I think this is the trick. People are buying cheap hardware and don't have enough RAM. My computer sings :) I am pleased with Vista. One of the first things I did was partition space for XP and try to run them side by side. I do a lot of computationally intensive programming (I'm an engineer) and some gaming. I really couldn't tell a speed difference between XP and Vista if I tried. So there was no reason to keep the XP partition and a few niceties that came with the Vista one.
Overall, I'm satisfied.
PSK31 uses 31hz of bandwidth.
:)
... and in reality could be much higher, or possibly a bit lower.
The formula for CW bandwidth is the bits per second (BPS) times a shape factor, K. CW speed is generally in words per minute, the word "PARIS" is the general word benchmark, 5 letters with 50 bits of information. 50/60 = 0.83 bits/second.
With a shape factor K=4, at 10 WPM (relatively slow), the signal width is about 40hz, wider than PSK31. At 25wpm (what I personally find comfortable) it's about 100hz. More experienced practitioners can speak even faster
The shape factor is a function of the wave modulating the carrier
(this information can be found a number of places, including here)
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Kari? :)
OK, I'll use my own numbers. I live in Alabama. I'm an engineer with a Master's a few years out of school who does fairly well.
... in my case, 0.8% of gross income
Federal income tax bracket: 25%
State income tax bracket: 4.8%
State sales tax: 8%
State property tax: 0.4% of property value
Health care (I pay, family of 4) as a function of gross: 4.6%
Remember the income taxes are based off of gross **adjusted** income, and sales tax based off of what you actually spend on consumables in-state (not your mortgage, credit card debt, student loans, etc.) so say the basis for that is 25% of your gross income. Your total tax basis is then 25+4.8+8*.25+0.8+4.6 = 36.4% of gross, and that is not accounting for the plethora of tax reductions most people have (kids? charitable donations? mortgage payments? tuition payments?). That's nothing compared to what most European countries pay, and I've covered your heath insurance. You're welcome.
and yet we get no health care. they do. I got heath care. I pay about $250 a month, less than 5% of my gross income. If these other countries have to charge double, even the triple of taxation of the US to provide health care, then I want none of that.
there's a reason why my EU stocks outperform my US stocks. So, that aside, I'd rather have privacy rights, no BSA gestapo on my door, and do better.
Good luck. My foreign stocks did well last year, but so did my American stocks. In fact my best performer was an American mutual fund. Privacy rights? Good luck. America has it better than a number of nations who have cameras at every turn. I'm on a mailing list of people who build rockets as a hobby, and it's fairly straightforward to build small motors in the US. However in England, and many other parts of the EU, any amount of Ammonium Perchlorate (for instance) is illegal without a license. There are other heavy restrictions on much more benign compounds as well that aren't or are minimally regulated here in the states and other 'sane' countries. Welcome to the nanny-state.
Two to the west coast, one to the midwest, all arrived just fine.
Pimp-mobile!
I have no broadband choices (I connect at 26.4kbps) but at least I get 0 over-the-air-channels. All right! Problem solved.
:) But just because you don't get TV (which is very wide bandwidth, analog video and voice) doesn't mean you won't get a digital internet connection.
Just because you don't get TV channels DOES NOT mean this won't work for you. It depends on bandwidth and encoding.
For example, in amateur radio, when voice communications are insufficient, Morse code (much narrower badwidth) tends to work over great distances, and when Morse doesn't work a digital mode like PSK31 (narrower) works even better, and often at lower powers.
It will really come down to the bandwidth and power output, it always does
Don't you mean GNU/Linux? There is already a "theater" fo GNU/Linux: Freedom. We are not just fighting for technical superiority, we are fighting for the freedom of the people--just like a secure e-voting machine would, by the way of allowing fair and efficient election to be held.
... 1 reboot in 6 months of owning it)
Because 99% of us don't give a crap about RMS's holy war. We just want to get our work done.
(and re: your followup to this thread, my Vista notebook has greater than 3 months uptime
Hell, more gross profit than the bankers?
:)
Commercial banking has never been that high profit. They tend to invest conservatively. Think about it, how big a return (if any) do banks give nowadays? Maybe half a percent, 1%? Only the online ones are doing more. So long as you beat inflation (~2.5-3% per annum) you are turning a profit, so banks tend to be conservative.
Hell, my 401k beat that last year
I sold my C64 on eBay this week. I shipped three packages of approximately equal weight: the C64 console, the disk drive, and a box of disks and accessories. The price to ship each of the boxes via UPS was approximately half the price of USPS ground ($10-12 v. $18-25). I shipped them all UPS.
And yet, the EU which still outperforms the US on real pay
Factor in taxes and it swings back in the US's favor. Majority of the middle class is paying 25% or less federal tax, even less on capital gains, and less than 10% state tax, before deductions (mortgage, etc.). Tell me again, how many European countries are paying in excess of 50% of their net to the state?
You know what us mechanical/aerospace engineering types say about the civil engineering types.
:)
Mechanical engineers build a wide range of things.
But all Civil engineers build are targets.