Also, how do you get $60,000 take home from $100000 - $25000 ?
Deductions from the salary (no need to worry about those if you're self-employed) that technically aren't taxes - mostly various social insurances (health/accident/unemployment/pension...). The whole socialist/communist stuff.
Some of which could be opted out of even when one is not self-employed (for example health insurance), but for a family of 5, sticking with the public health insurance system is probably the cheaper option. Especially if one or both parents are not young, healthy and otherwise risk-free.
All said and done, this family would require a skillfull tax advisor to get their annual tax burden down to $40,000.
If that is indeed the case (which I doubt), then the tax system over there is all kinds of screwed up.
Heck, over here in one of those the super-socialist/almost-communist high-tax European countries that I happen to live in, income tax on the equivalent of $100000/yr would be about $25000/yr for said family. They'd end up with only $60000 in take-home pay, still, but they'd all have health insurance, pretty much free (as in beer) universities, etc....
So if the family in California really pays that much in taxes, where does all the money go ?
Now can one explain, if the glass allows X% of light to pass, how can this "coating" amplify it to X+?
Because most of the light that does not pass through the glass is not "absorbed" inside the the glass but instead reflected at the air/glass and glass/air boundary layers.
Coating glass with stuff to minimize the reflection is a really old thing. Ever wonder why the lenses of (good) binoculars seem have a bluish or reddish tint to them ? Because they're coated to increase light transmission.
For something to float, it must displace an equal mass of whatever its floating in. By definition, the north polar ice cap is displacing exactly its own mass in water. If it were to melt, the displaced water would take exactly the same amount of volume as the submerged ice. This would cause the world's ocean levels to rise by the exact amount of zero plus the volume of several dozen annoyed polar bears.
This, of course, leaves tides completely out of consideration.
Yes, the _average_ sea level would not change.
However, the amplitude of tides would increase due to more water sloshing around. And a city that's flooded half of the day is pretty much as bad as one that's flooded for the full day.
Without mutiple eyes, you can't establish a range to anything.
Yes you can, it's just a bit slower and more complicated.
* You can move a single eye and use the parallax effect to gauge distance.
* You can use information from the focusing system to gauge relative and, if you're good, absolute distances.
* The expert system in your brain can tell from the size of an object how far it is away.
A more likely reason we have 2 eyes is we were origionally predators.
The reason why we have 2 eyes, aligned in a way that lets us judge range, is that our ancestors were hopping from tree to tree. Misjudging distances while doing so can have consequences ranging from "painful" to "removal from the gene pool".
We notice movement and distance well.
Compared to a real predator, we're pretty much blind in these regards.
It helps us hunt.
Not really. Hunters do not need color perception, instead they need high resolution (especially temporal) and good performance through a wide spectrum of light intensities.
We, on the other hand, have sacrificed low-light performance for color perception so we can tell the red fruit from the green fruit and the leaves.
If naval sonar is so advanced, why is atmospheric sonar so lacking ?
Sound (especially ultrasound) attenuation in air is a real pain here, as is the low, low speed of sound in air.
Lasers will poke holes through objects but do not cause a target's destruction or explosion -- however, shooting through or over-heating a target's fuel tank will cause an explosion.
Usually, poking holes into things is a quite practical approach to destroying them.
And as far as missiles go, they do have lots of parts that don't take too well to having holes burned into them - rocket fuel, warheads, guidance electronics and the like
When Europe starts to produce inventions of consequence (the last one was, I believe, the radio, while the US came out with nuclear power, computers,...
Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who got his education in Italy. Fermi left Italy for University of Chicago because of Mussolini. Will the next Fermi leave the US because of Bush?
You might also want to reflect that people have the same life expectancy in the United States that they do in Germany.
Great ! The US are doing better than a country that still has to deal with uniting two parts, one of which having been ravaged by communism for almost half a century. What an accomplishment.
People have to be able to take care of themselves. It hurts everyone when you create a dependant class. It is just another form of slavery.
What's most people's way to deal, say, with a six-figure medical bill themselves ? Debt. There's your dependent class. Enslaved by whoever owns the money you just spent (bank, loan shark,...).
One should always strive to "teach a man to fish", rather than simply giving them a fish.
Striving for it is nice, but assuming that it can be done in each and every case means assuming a lot:
* Every man will eventually be able to fish. * Every man will always remain able to fish. * There will always be good weather to fish. * No one will starve while learning how to fish. * There are enough good fishing spots for everyone. * No one is being kept from accessing a fishing spot by others. * There are enough fish around for everyone to catch. (...)
And what's the answer when teaching a man how to fish is not going to work ? "Tough luck" ?
Maybe not to arrest you, but it can definitely make you a suspect. Heart rate goes up when you see a cop ? Suspicious. Heart rate goes up in the vicinity of certain buildings ? Suspicious. And in some places of the world, being suspicious can get you killed.
This device could be amazing for training. It gives data normal HBM's can't measure, like oxygen levels. One could train much more effectively, and also monitor oneself during races or record attempts.
Not really. It's extremely hard to make your blood oxygen saturation drop below 95% or so due to the way the breathing reflex is wired in the brain. In a non-medical situation, the device would just show some number between 95% and 100%, which basically has zero significance.
I find the pricing to be the most curious: "The price will vary, Atzmon says, according to service packages and insurance coverage."
Depending on the country you're, the price for medical services will depend quite heavily on the type of health insurance you have, so this isn't anything new.
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Deductions from the salary (no need to worry about those if you're self-employed) that technically aren't taxes - mostly various social insurances (health/accident/unemployment/pension...). The whole socialist/communist stuff.
Some of which could be opted out of even when one is not self-employed (for example health insurance), but for a family of 5, sticking with the public health insurance system is probably the cheaper option. Especially if one or both parents are not young, healthy and otherwise risk-free.
If that is indeed the case (which I doubt), then the tax system over there is all kinds of screwed up.
Heck, over here in one of those the super-socialist/almost-communist high-tax European countries that I happen to live in, income tax on the equivalent of $100000/yr would be about $25000/yr for said family. They'd end up with only $60000 in take-home pay, still, but they'd all have health insurance, pretty much free (as in beer) universities, etc
So if the family in California really pays that much in taxes, where does all the money go ?
Radioactivity that can give people acute radiation burns doesn't last that long.
Radioactivity at levels that significantly increases cancer risk tends to stick around for a while.
"Communism believes in centralized gov't, to benefit commercial enterprise." ?
That's an interesting hypothesis.
On a second thought, it's not. It's pure and utter BS. But very funny. Like most of the rest of the post.
Games.
It doesn't, because doing so would violate certain thermodynamic principles in horribly gruesome ways.
If there is an object with a temperature below the dew point, water will condense on it, regardless of what the surface is like.
Because most of the light that does not pass through the glass is not "absorbed" inside the the glass but instead reflected at the air/glass and glass/air boundary layers.
Coating glass with stuff to minimize the reflection is a really old thing. Ever wonder why the lenses of (good) binoculars seem have a bluish or reddish tint to them ? Because they're coated to increase light transmission.
This, of course, leaves tides completely out of consideration.
Yes, the _average_ sea level would not change.
However, the amplitude of tides would increase due to more water sloshing around. And a city that's flooded half of the day is pretty much as bad as one that's flooded for the full day.
Bats are not rodents.
.. about being able to connect three hard drives (or maybe four) to a computer ?
Yes you can, it's just a bit slower and more complicated. * You can move a single eye and use the parallax effect to gauge distance. * You can use information from the focusing system to gauge relative and, if you're good, absolute distances. * The expert system in your brain can tell from the size of an object how far it is away.
The reason why we have 2 eyes, aligned in a way that lets us judge range, is that our ancestors were hopping from tree to tree. Misjudging distances while doing so can have consequences ranging from "painful" to "removal from the gene pool".
We notice movement and distance well.
Compared to a real predator, we're pretty much blind in these regards.
It helps us hunt.
Not really. Hunters do not need color perception, instead they need high resolution (especially temporal) and good performance through a wide spectrum of light intensities.
We, on the other hand, have sacrificed low-light performance for color perception so we can tell the red fruit from the green fruit and the leaves.
If naval sonar is so advanced, why is atmospheric sonar so lacking ?
Sound (especially ultrasound) attenuation in air is a real pain here, as is the low, low speed of sound in air.
Usually, poking holes into things is a quite practical approach to destroying them.
And as far as missiles go, they do have lots of parts that don't take too well to having holes burned into them - rocket fuel, warheads, guidance electronics and the like
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3
He probably already did.
Great ! The US are doing better than a country that still has to deal with uniting two parts, one of which having been ravaged by communism for almost half a century. What an accomplishment.
What's most people's way to deal, say, with a six-figure medical bill themselves ? Debt. There's your dependent class. Enslaved by whoever owns the money you just spent (bank, loan shark, ...).
Striving for it is nice, but assuming that it can be done in each and every case means assuming a lot:
* Every man will eventually be able to fish.
* Every man will always remain able to fish.
* There will always be good weather to fish.
* No one will starve while learning how to fish.
* There are enough good fishing spots for everyone.
* No one is being kept from accessing a fishing spot by others.
* There are enough fish around for everyone to catch.
(...)
And what's the answer when teaching a man how to fish is not going to work ? "Tough luck" ?
Question: How much time did you spend learning to use Windows ? Would things "generally just work" if you hadn't spent that time ?
It's actually very simple: If you're poor, then it's either your own fault or god just hates you. In both cases, you don't deserve any help.
I wonder how that's supposed to work. Last thing I heard was the ECG signal is the difference in electrical potential beween two points on the body.
Maybe not to arrest you, but it can definitely make you a suspect. Heart rate goes up when you see a cop ? Suspicious. Heart rate goes up in the vicinity of certain buildings ? Suspicious. And in some places of the world, being suspicious can get you killed.
It costs you 5 cents, but how much does it cost the person whose cellphone you're calling ? It's their minutes being used up.
Not really. It's extremely hard to make your blood oxygen saturation drop below 95% or so due to the way the breathing reflex is wired in the brain. In a non-medical situation, the device would just show some number between 95% and 100%, which basically has zero significance.
Depending on the country you're, the price for medical services will depend quite heavily on the type of health insurance you have, so this isn't anything new.