Quoting at random from the IRS website. 'Was the estate tax retroactively reinstated for decedents dying in 2010? Yes. ' On congresses right to do this: 'The Supreme Court “repeatedly has upheld retroactive tax legislation against a due process challenge”. Indeed, the Supreme Court in Carlton rejected the executor’s Due Process argument and upheld the retroactive application of the tax law based upon a two-part test that emerged from its analysis. The test upholds retroactive tax application if: (1) the legislation has a rational legislative purpose and is not arbitrary; and (2) the period of retroactivity is not excessive.' https://www.treasury.gov/conne... - lists quite a lot of legislation doing this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - is also relevant. This is analogous to the case of Ireland. Ireland is a member of the EU, and has signed various treaties saying what freedom they have to subsidise firms. Removing taxes from a company counts as subsidy.
"I'm sorry, I'm confused by the CONCEPT of having a shortage of TODO items. This is just the top of my head _Linux_ stuff, and doesn't include purely-me items like learning LUA. I want to get a mac and learn THAT stuff. I want to get my master's degree so I can become a full-time college professor when I'm ready to retire from programming. I want to write multiple books. I want to start a third convention so I have an excuse to wave the Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy at people (http://www.newamerica.net/files/archive/Pub_File_1555_1.pdf). I want to learn to draw so I can start a webcomic. I have enormous stacks of books to read. I need to watch the rest of Mythbusters, catch up on the new Dr. Who, and play Dragon Age. I want to garden and cook and bike and swim. I want to get rich and start the world's largest nudist resort. I want to dig up the recording of the time I got Neil Gaiman to say "By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be avenged" into a microphone (after his reading of Crazy Hair at Penguicon 2) and also get Ralph Nader to say "Luke, I am your Father" into another microphone. I need to completely redo my website (and make a "random cool stuff" page listing http://sidhefaer.livejournal.c... and http://theglen.livejournal.com... and so on...)
Well - no. The person in the article has a sharply declining quality of life - having to have help going to the bathroom, and significant amounts of care, being able to do very little for himself, as well as being blind. Many people in this condition - even at a much, much younger age, would contemplate ending it.
It could, you probably don't want to. Overall efficiency will be moderately low - you don't for a desalination plant want stuff floating on the water for long periods, it's too hard to anchor and make reliable. It's probably several times more efficient to have the plant on land, with 'conventional' solar collectors. Vacuum solar panels are surprisingly cheap now.
Given the idea (which is old) 'wouldn't it be nice to be able to find people who steal phones' - the idea of 'let's use all the sensors in the phone to do so' is what occurs to anyone with the tiniest modicum of a clue in under a second. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/... http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Mar... 'What's working
Geolocation info
Network info
Take screenshot
List of running programs ' Are just a couple of the several year old things Ihappened to know of.
There are two ways to solve this problem. A) Map every single building including ingress and egress. B) Rely on the user being able to pick a route from the road to the building entrance.
B) doesn't even require the user to actually drive from the road to the entrance. They can simply pick an entrance on a map, or high resolution ariel imagery.
Plus, entrances remembered from other users may be usable.
Reverse engineering (unless performed by the supplier of the equipment before sale time) is never an alternative to proper documentation. The problem is that subtle bugs may not be track-downable if you just have reverse engineered documents, it encourages suppliers to not make available documentation, and that the product may not actually ever become workable. For the maker to simply refer to an ongoing project in no way means it's not open.
Currently, vendors are having to limit availability due to supply shortage. Is it intended that this will not be the case in the future, or is the foundation concentrating on other things?
Medical imagers vary. Some rely on interpretation of fine details in images, and that one pixel matters. In this case, compressed images are a terrible idea. In other cases, you are taking high frame-rate video, and analysing gait, or how a ball is hit, or... For this case, compressed video is just fine, but dropping from compressed to uncompressed, and getting 1/6th the frame-rate is utterly useless.
There are various classes of imagers. One used in sports medicine was referenced in the thread as having issues. it relies on high frames per second video in order to get images of motion to analyse.
There was no performance issue - the problem was that multiple applications could not access the camera at once, and it was important to fix this. Quoting: " It was important for us to enable concurrent camera access, so Windows Hello, Microsoft Hololens and other products and features could reliably assume that the camera would be available at any given time, regardless of what other applications may be accessing it. "
Which is of great comfort to the owners of medical imagers that are now junk unless someone catches and rolls back the anniversary edition. There is claimed to be a fix in the pipe.
It's complex. Anti-dumping rules have made solar panels in the US amongst the most expensive in the world. However. http://www.wholesalesolar.com/... - as one example has panels down at $.89/W.
If you're in an area that needs large amounts of AC in primarily sunny periods, a replacement well insulated roof could do really nice things for your bills by removing the daytime component of your bills entirely, even without requiring any subsidy.
Though if you can reduce the price by 20-25%, suddenly it becomes as economic as it was to put panels on east as on south. Plus - east-facing panels output at a different time of day somewhat than south - which would do good things for the grid.
As DIY. Solar panels are not wholly ridiculous any more as roofing material - at least for smaller roofs. For example, I have a 5*20m roof. Wholly replacing the skin of this with solar panels would cost around $6K. This is a large number - but not hugely much in context of the whole roof replacement. Optimising for cost per area, rather than cost per watt, and finding some nice way to fix with integral insulation, for example could greatly speed assembly of the roof.
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-euro... Sigh. I do wonder what'd have happened if they'd continued with maemo/harmattan, and put decent effort into it, rather than leaping to Microsofts side and tanking the stock price further.
The first stage and the second stage disconnect. The first stage flips around end to end, and makes a burn to kill most of its velocity. Then as it is entering the thicker parts of the atmosphere and it would be destroyed by drag and heating otherwise, rapidly slows at high G using the engines to around mach 1, and turns the engines off. It is at this time steering using fins attached to the top of the rocket. Once it gets ~10-20 seconds before landing, it lights an engine or three (details vary) and uses the thrust from these vectored in order to precisely land on the barge (along with the fins in the initial portion).
The antibiotic is just used as it is a convenient chemical that is well understood how to use for switching things on and off. It would be fed to your breeding stock of mosquitos, not as I understand it the maturing to-be-released mosquitos. There will not be significant levels of antibiotic in the released mosquitos.
It quotes many other articles and then says 'but these are wrong'. (admittedly with sources) but doesn't contain a list of actual requirements.
Another very relevant factor is not what the law says, but what the police think the law says. It's not a huge amount of comfort that you're right, when you're getting the door kicked in.
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Quoting at random from the IRS website.
'Was the estate tax retroactively reinstated for decedents dying in 2010?
Yes. '
On congresses right to do this:
'The Supreme Court “repeatedly has upheld retroactive tax legislation against a due process challenge”. Indeed, the Supreme Court in Carlton rejected the executor’s Due Process argument and upheld the retroactive application of the tax law based upon a two-part test that emerged from its analysis. The test upholds retroactive tax application if: (1) the legislation has a rational legislative purpose and is not arbitrary; and (2) the period of retroactivity is not excessive.'
https://www.treasury.gov/conne... - lists quite a lot of legislation doing this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - is also relevant.
This is analogous to the case of Ireland. Ireland is a member of the EU, and has signed various treaties saying what freedom they have to subsidise firms.
Removing taxes from a company counts as subsidy.
Or, indeed, illness of other sorts.
I write as someone who has had a serious life-limiting condition for the past 30 years.
That is not a problem with immortality. That is a problem with aging.
One of my very favourite books.
My list is currently expanding asymptotically.
Quoting without permission Rob Landley:
http://lists.celinuxforum.org/...
"I'm sorry, I'm confused by the CONCEPT of having a shortage of TODO items.
This is just the top of my head _Linux_ stuff, and doesn't include purely-me
items like learning LUA. I want to get a mac and learn THAT stuff. I want to
get my master's degree so I can become a full-time college professor when I'm
ready to retire from programming. I want to write multiple books. I want to
start a third convention so I have an excuse to wave the Cartoon Guide to
Federal Spectrum Policy at people
(http://www.newamerica.net/files/archive/Pub_File_1555_1.pdf). I want to learn
to draw so I can start a webcomic. I have enormous stacks of books to read.
I need to watch the rest of Mythbusters, catch up on the new Dr. Who, and play
Dragon Age. I want to garden and cook and bike and swim. I want to get rich
and start the world's largest nudist resort. I want to dig up the recording
of the time I got Neil Gaiman to say "By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be
avenged" into a microphone (after his reading of Crazy Hair at Penguicon 2)
and also get Ralph Nader to say "Luke, I am your Father" into another
microphone. I need to completely redo my website (and make a "random cool
stuff" page listing http://sidhefaer.livejournal.c... and
http://theglen.livejournal.com... and so on...)
Theres... a shortage of stuff to do somewhere?
Really?
How does that work?
"
Well - no.
The person in the article has a sharply declining quality of life - having to have help going to the bathroom, and significant amounts of care, being able to do very little for himself, as well as being blind.
Many people in this condition - even at a much, much younger age, would contemplate ending it.
It could, you probably don't want to. Overall efficiency will be moderately low - you don't for a desalination plant want stuff floating on the water for long periods, it's too hard to anchor and make reliable.
It's probably several times more efficient to have the plant on land, with 'conventional' solar collectors.
Vacuum solar panels are surprisingly cheap now.
Given the idea (which is old) 'wouldn't it be nice to be able to find people who steal phones' - the idea of 'let's use all the sensors in the phone to do so' is what occurs to anyone with the tiniest modicum of a clue in under a second.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/...
http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Mar...
'What's working
Geolocation info
Network info
Take screenshot
List of running programs '
Are just a couple of the several year old things Ihappened to know of.
There are two ways to solve this problem.
A) Map every single building including ingress and egress.
B) Rely on the user being able to pick a route from the road to the building entrance.
B) doesn't even require the user to actually drive from the road to the entrance. They can simply pick an entrance on a map, or high resolution ariel imagery.
Plus, entrances remembered from other users may be usable.
Reverse engineering (unless performed by the supplier of the equipment before sale time) is never an alternative to proper documentation.
The problem is that subtle bugs may not be track-downable if you just have reverse engineered documents, it encourages suppliers to not make available documentation, and that the product may not actually ever become workable.
For the maker to simply refer to an ongoing project in no way means it's not open.
Currently, vendors are having to limit availability due to supply shortage. Is it intended that this will not be the case in the future, or is the foundation concentrating on other things?
Medical imagers vary. Some rely on interpretation of fine details in images, and that one pixel matters. ...
In this case, compressed images are a terrible idea.
In other cases, you are taking high frame-rate video, and analysing gait, or how a ball is hit, or
For this case, compressed video is just fine, but dropping from compressed to uncompressed, and getting 1/6th the frame-rate is utterly useless.
There are various classes of imagers. One used in sports medicine was referenced in the thread as having issues. it relies on high frames per second video in order to get images of motion to analyse.
There was no performance issue - the problem was that multiple applications could not access the camera at once, and it was important to fix this.
Quoting:
" It was important for us to enable concurrent camera access, so Windows Hello, Microsoft Hololens and other products and features could reliably assume that the camera would be available at any given time, regardless of what other applications may be accessing it. "
https://social.msdn.microsoft....
Which is of great comfort to the owners of medical imagers that are now junk unless someone catches and rolls back the anniversary edition. There is claimed to be a fix in the pipe.
It's complex.
Anti-dumping rules have made solar panels in the US amongst the most expensive in the world.
However.
http://www.wholesalesolar.com/... - as one example has panels down at $.89/W.
If you're in an area that needs large amounts of AC in primarily sunny periods, a replacement well insulated roof could do really nice things for your bills by removing the daytime component of your bills entirely, even without requiring any subsidy.
Though if you can reduce the price by 20-25%, suddenly it becomes as economic as it was to put panels on east as on south. Plus - east-facing panels output at a different time of day somewhat than south - which would do good things for the grid.
As DIY. Solar panels are not wholly ridiculous any more as roofing material - at least for smaller roofs.
For example, I have a 5*20m roof.
Wholly replacing the skin of this with solar panels would cost around $6K. This is a large number - but not hugely much in context of the whole roof replacement. Optimising for cost per area, rather than cost per watt, and finding some nice way to fix with integral insulation, for example could greatly speed assembly of the roof.
The 900 was considerably more developed.
Though was not actually sold in many markets, despite demand, through internal nokia politics.
Quite - I have one - but regrettably it is somewhat different a scale than Nokia Maemo. At least as of yet.
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-euro...
Sigh.
I do wonder what'd have happened if they'd continued with maemo/harmattan, and put decent effort into it, rather than leaping to Microsofts side and tanking the stock price further.
The first stage and the second stage disconnect.
The first stage flips around end to end, and makes a burn to kill most of its velocity.
Then as it is entering the thicker parts of the atmosphere and it would be destroyed by drag and heating otherwise, rapidly slows at high G using the engines to around mach 1, and turns the engines off.
It is at this time steering using fins attached to the top of the rocket.
Once it gets ~10-20 seconds before landing, it lights an engine or three (details vary) and uses the thrust from these vectored in order to precisely land on the barge (along with the fins in the initial portion).
http://www.spacex.com/sites/sp... is a nice diagram.
He will be remembered by all who hear him.
The antibiotic is just used as it is a convenient chemical that is well understood how to use for switching things on and off.
It would be fed to your breeding stock of mosquitos, not as I understand it the maturing to-be-released mosquitos.
There will not be significant levels of antibiotic in the released mosquitos.
It quotes many other articles and then says 'but these are wrong'. (admittedly with sources) but doesn't contain a list of actual requirements.
Another very relevant factor is not what the law says, but what the police think the law says.
It's not a huge amount of comfort that you're right, when you're getting the door kicked in.