Well, the CIA says so:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ranko rder/2001rank.html
It doesn't surprise me, but I think that table may shock the many Americans who have a very distorted view of the world!
What distortion would that be? The US leads the world. The nearest competition is China that ranks about 60% of the US with over 4 times the population.
If you want to include the EU in the compitetion then they just about tie us with about twice the population.
USA USA USA
For those wondering how to pronounce "Viiv", the article states that it rhymes with "five".
I can see that name causing much confusion. Imagine a granny at an electronics boutique asking how much one of these "Veevee" systems costs. The salespeople may very well not understand what she's asking about
I'll bet you are to young to remember when Nike first hit the market?
But you must be fair. The second ad is on point...
American Nuclear Society
Fast, Thermal and Fusion Reactor
Experiments Meeting Proceedings
www.ans.org
Don't those fuel cells (which iirc commonly work on hydrogen and oxygen) produce water? So you're going to be walking around with a wet spot in your pants...
Oh come on, gadgets have been making slashdoters wet since... well before they were slashdoters.
"In an acrimonious debate that broke largely along party lines, more than three-quarters of congressional Democrats voted to oppose the reform bill..."
This sentence is an oxymoron. The debate "broke largely along party lines" yet 3/4 of the democrats voted aginst the bill.
A guy plies his trade in a place where certain taxes apply and he has a problem with this? Since when did not having a physical presence in a place exempt you from from their laws? Really, as far as New York is concerned this guy is working in their manor and drawing an income from their economy and is therefore liable for their taxes. The fact that he does not actually shift his carcass over the the state line is irrelevant.
But what if he lived and did 75% of his work in a state that did have an income tax? Would he have to pay both?
They probably could by TiVo with a week or two's pizza budget. They get what right now the slickest interface in the commercial DVR market, a rabid base of current subscribers and they save what is really a pretty good company.
I can see it already TiVoogle.
So? Since when does the cost of an item relate to how many times the purchaser uses it?
Car salesman: This car is $20,000.
Man: But I'm not planning on using it very often.
Car salesman: Ok, in that case it's $15,000.
But if you are going to use a car only once, say for a weekend we call it renting and only costs +/- $100.00.
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I guarantee this will, in the long run, have an effect on Arab/American relations. Which way it will go I haven't a clue.
Mail order (catalog or phone) items which cross state lines have never been subject to sales tax; only if the shipper and reveiver were in the same state was sales tax charged.
While this is true most states that have a sales tax also have a USE Tax on items that weren't taxed by sales taxes. In other words, for all these years if you ordered an item from another state and didn't pay sales tax you were supposed to report it to the state and pay the use tax yourself.
No body did it and it was small enough that the state didn't worry to much about it. The web has scaled it up to the point that it is costing the state enough money now to worry about.
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Depends if it kills them or not, and if they knew if it could or not.
As opposed to starving to death.
Is it worst to have these terrible jobs or no jobs at all?
Well, the CIA says so: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ranko rder/2001rank.html
It doesn't surprise me, but I think that table may shock the many Americans who have a very distorted view of the world!
What distortion would that be? The US leads the world. The nearest competition is China that ranks about 60% of the US with over 4 times the population. If you want to include the EU in the compitetion then they just about tie us with about twice the population. USA USA USA
You know what else happens on 5 January 2006? This guy turns 75. Maybe the Sober writer also hates The Godfather! Who knows?
And that guy is only 3 steps from Hitler.
It's all so clear now.
/. Where you hear about it 364 days later. Boy we are on the cutting edge of tech news here.
And suddenly my 1+ inch nose becomes the most desired part of my body!
/. reader. Like it wasn't already.
You're a
For those wondering how to pronounce "Viiv", the article states that it rhymes with "five". I can see that name causing much confusion. Imagine a granny at an electronics boutique asking how much one of these "Veevee" systems costs. The salespeople may very well not understand what she's asking about
I'll bet you are to young to remember when Nike first hit the market?
With that out of the way we can finaly create Cold Fusion
Why would any company donate $3,000,000 to piss off a large percentage of their customer base?
But you must be fair. The second ad is on point... American Nuclear Society Fast, Thermal and Fusion Reactor Experiments Meeting Proceedings www.ans.org
...It took 50 years for the stealth bomber to be made public, I'd imagine something like quantum computing would be held secret as long as possible.
Are you talking about this http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-2.htm stealth bomber? If so are you saying that it was flying in 1933?
Is anyone even reading the patent applications before they are approved? What ever happened to "Prior Art"?
Don't those fuel cells (which iirc commonly work on hydrogen and oxygen) produce water? So you're going to be walking around with a wet spot in your pants...
Oh come on, gadgets have been making slashdoters wet since... well before they were slashdoters.
"In an acrimonious debate that broke largely along party lines, more than three-quarters of congressional Democrats voted to oppose the reform bill..."
This sentence is an oxymoron. The debate "broke largely along party lines" yet 3/4 of the democrats voted aginst the bill.
A guy plies his trade in a place where certain taxes apply and he has a problem with this? Since when did not having a physical presence in a place exempt you from from their laws? Really, as far as New York is concerned this guy is working in their manor and drawing an income from their economy and is therefore liable for their taxes. The fact that he does not actually shift his carcass over the the state line is irrelevant.
But what if he lived and did 75% of his work in a state that did have an income tax? Would he have to pay both?
They probably could by TiVo with a week or two's pizza budget. They get what right now the slickest interface in the commercial DVR market, a rabid base of current subscribers and they save what is really a pretty good company. I can see it already TiVoogle.
But if you are going to use a car only once, say for a weekend we call it renting and only costs +/- $100.00.
I guarantee this will, in the long run, have an effect on Arab/American relations. Which way it will go I haven't a clue.
I never, ever want to see a porn movie in Hi-Def.
No but she has her own show. "How I Met Your Mother." She's still cute.