I guess the next question then is, why does Sales Tax matter so much? I know Income Tax is lower in the US than the UK, but do the individual States not get any of that funding? Is there no equivalent of Council Tax (i.e. a tax collected solely for the use of the state)?
As someone from outside the US, why is national infrastructure paid for at a local level?
It's not a troll, I seriously don't really get the idea of a single country being run by so many independant states as the US seems to be.
Here in the UK there are National Routes and Local Routes, with the local routes paid for out of Council Tax and a share of the nationally collected Income Tax, although there are arguments for getting rid of Council Tax in favour of either a Land Tax or a more direct share of Income Tax.
Kids don't/can't think in terms of future careers because they have no real understanding of what those careers involve and thus what the consquences of those decisions actually are.
The result of a test taken in 5 grade (*1) could adversely affect future asperations through peer pressure of the group.
Note #1: I couldnt find out whether this scheme applied to all or just some of the Standardised Tests and so assume it work across all the tests, which start from Grade 5 (10-11 years old).
There was a time when all of those multiplayer games were hosted by the gamers themselves, in some form or other.
The only reason games companies even have the costs associated with running online servers for years after the game was sold is because they decided they wanted a slice of the dedicated server market and so took away the ability of players to host their own games.
If Frodo still lives then he must be really really really old by now, which is the best evidence available that no one has destroyed the ring and he still has it.
he's talking about the speed of the influence of gravity, not the effect in terms of accelleration gravity has on an object.
For example, in our solar system, we have a number of planets orbitting the sun at various distances. What happens if the sun suddenly popped out of existence, how long before each of the planets stops following the previous orbital path because there is no longer a massive gravity well at the center of the system?
My point wasn't about the inconvience. It's more about the fact that it becomes worthwhile for someone to try to nick my wallet again. For the last decade, as people switched to cards, they started reducing the amount of cash carried with them. It just wasn't worth the risk of trying to steal someones wallet to get a couple of small notes and some loose change.
As someone mentioned above, eventually the card prompts for a PIN, but even assuming that was once 5th transaction (and I suspect under normal circumstances it will be less frequent than that) and with a £15 limit per transaction that is still £60/card in the wallet unless you can contact the bank to report the card stolen.
It's petty street crime which I worry about with these schemes, not high-tech skimming.
if you report the card stolen then you'll get the money back.
Thats not really the point is it, when I go out with cash, I carry what I need to use and thats it, which normally means £20-30.
But the credit card based paywave stuff as far as I know pretty much lets you have up to your card limit so long as the payments were small without ever challenging for authentication. I would hope that the banks would start restricting it if they found me spending a £xxxx in small transactions but I'm not convinced.
That means that street crime becomes worth the effort again, someone lifts my wallet (either with stealth or violence) and they could gain access to large amounts of money.
Oh I realise the implications, and if I have to shop at Tesco's rather than a local store, I always use the credit card as a means of trying to equalise the cost savings multinations have compared to the local businessman.
Small local store = always pay in cash (although there are charges for this as well)
National Chain = Always in credit cards, even for an 80p item.
he got caught the same way everyone who builds up large fabricated stories get caught; by a small detail, which lead to another detail and so on.
In this case, the small detail was that the lynx was meant to have been photographed in mid summer, but still have a full winter coat on. A small matter that you wouldn't think would be the issue that catches someone out, you would have thought that since the photos were being submitted to photographic awards and agencies one of those experts might have picked up on the photoshopping (after all you can tell by some of the pixels and I've seen a few shops in my time).
All together, the big picture looks believable, it's only when someone notice the tiniest detail out of place that everything comes apart.
Pulping a book is just retiring an object which is beyond it's service live.
So long as there is another copy of the information in that book available, nothing of value has been lost. It's the loss of information in losing the last copy of a book which matters.
I specifically said organisations which weren't illegal, and therefore have no need to be clandestine. Political protest groups for example are not illegal, although they organise public protests, here in the UK the police seem to spend a lot of time infiltrating such organisations and acting as agent provocateurs from within, enabling (if not being the outright drive force towards) illegal activity.
It's not just about face recognition. If I was in a group which was likely to attracted undercover police attention without the organisation being outright illegal, such as the various environmental groups that the police have been targetting here in the UK.
I would be asking to see the facebook profile of anyone trying to get into the group and if they don't have one or their profile only goes back a few months I would be extremely suspicious.
The police don't just need the ability to stop facial recognition, they need to be allowed to craft entire profiles, with back dated statuses, relationships which can withstand superficial checking etc.
You break the cover of spy by catching the little lies, and facebook gives you a lot of small pieces of information which must all tie to together to avoid suspicion.
I think a 1 negative weighs more in the decision to contact/reply to a profile than 1 positive, so although although you maybe tall a single thing a prospective date see a bad more than counters the positive thing.
In my case, there are 2 negatives that stand out and which I've always thought explain my complete lack of success on dating sites.
1) I'm bald (women are never looking for talk shiny and handsome)
2) I don't drink
I think both of those things make a women pause, and once they have paused they don't tend to continue at all.
Aliens are like zombies, they are just a placeholder for a particular type of disaster without getting hung up on the exact rules of a pre-existing disaster.
Zombies are a biological/Social Disorder disaster
Aliens would represent massive and sudden technological disaster (for example, massive communication failure with California)
Slashdot Mirror
Surely Apple TV is Apple's Living Room device, Apple have never really seemed to care about gaming beyond casual easy to pick up/put down type games.
If you weren't responding to my own post I would have modded you funny.
Why did they need shuting up in the first place?
http://www.dinstuhl.org/?p=48
Ah, so it's not so dissimilar to the UK setup.
I guess the next question then is, why does Sales Tax matter so much? I know Income Tax is lower in the US than the UK, but do the individual States not get any of that funding? Is there no equivalent of Council Tax (i.e. a tax collected solely for the use of the state)?
As someone from outside the US, why is national infrastructure paid for at a local level?
It's not a troll, I seriously don't really get the idea of a single country being run by so many independant states as the US seems to be. Here in the UK there are National Routes and Local Routes, with the local routes paid for out of Council Tax and a share of the nationally collected Income Tax, although there are arguments for getting rid of Council Tax in favour of either a Land Tax or a more direct share of Income Tax.
Kids don't/can't think in terms of future careers because they have no real understanding of what those careers involve and thus what the consquences of those decisions actually are.
The result of a test taken in 5 grade (*1) could adversely affect future asperations through peer pressure of the group.
Note #1: I couldnt find out whether this scheme applied to all or just some of the Standardised Tests and so assume it work across all the tests, which start from Grade 5 (10-11 years old).
actually, that makes more sense.
So your mono colour TV also has the colour out of wack?
It's the drugs isn't, the drugs make you see colours where there are none.
There was a time when all of those multiplayer games were hosted by the gamers themselves, in some form or other.
The only reason games companies even have the costs associated with running online servers for years after the game was sold is because they decided they wanted a slice of the dedicated server market and so took away the ability of players to host their own games.
He just meant that his laptop weighs more when LibreOffice is installed
a british £1 coin weighs 9.5g (I had to look it up).
Which is 0.02 lb which means 10000 lbs of £1 is equal to £500,000 which is a very impressive prize fund.
£1 coin contains 70% copper, 5.5% nickel, 24,5% zinc
Copper = $3.1640/lb = ~$0.04/coin
Nickel = $8.3801/lb = ~$0.01/coin
Zinc = $0.8484/lb = ~$0.005/coin
Total ~$0.05 of material in a coin
+1 and interesting read but personally I think he put in too happy an ending.
If Frodo still lives then he must be really really really old by now, which is the best evidence available that no one has destroyed the ring and he still has it.
he's talking about the speed of the influence of gravity, not the effect in terms of accelleration gravity has on an object.
For example, in our solar system, we have a number of planets orbitting the sun at various distances. What happens if the sun suddenly popped out of existence, how long before each of the planets stops following the previous orbital path because there is no longer a massive gravity well at the center of the system?
My point wasn't about the inconvience. It's more about the fact that it becomes worthwhile for someone to try to nick my wallet again. For the last decade, as people switched to cards, they started reducing the amount of cash carried with them. It just wasn't worth the risk of trying to steal someones wallet to get a couple of small notes and some loose change.
As someone mentioned above, eventually the card prompts for a PIN, but even assuming that was once 5th transaction (and I suspect under normal circumstances it will be less frequent than that) and with a £15 limit per transaction that is still £60/card in the wallet unless you can contact the bank to report the card stolen.
It's petty street crime which I worry about with these schemes, not high-tech skimming.
Thats not really the point is it, when I go out with cash, I carry what I need to use and thats it, which normally means £20-30.
But the credit card based paywave stuff as far as I know pretty much lets you have up to your card limit so long as the payments were small without ever challenging for authentication. I would hope that the banks would start restricting it if they found me spending a £xxxx in small transactions but I'm not convinced.
That means that street crime becomes worth the effort again, someone lifts my wallet (either with stealth or violence) and they could gain access to large amounts of money.
Oh I realise the implications, and if I have to shop at Tesco's rather than a local store, I always use the credit card as a means of trying to equalise the cost savings multinations have compared to the local businessman.
Small local store = always pay in cash (although there are charges for this as well) National Chain = Always in credit cards, even for an 80p item.
he got caught the same way everyone who builds up large fabricated stories get caught; by a small detail, which lead to another detail and so on.
In this case, the small detail was that the lynx was meant to have been photographed in mid summer, but still have a full winter coat on. A small matter that you wouldn't think would be the issue that catches someone out, you would have thought that since the photos were being submitted to photographic awards and agencies one of those experts might have picked up on the photoshopping (after all you can tell by some of the pixels and I've seen a few shops in my time).
All together, the big picture looks believable, it's only when someone notice the tiniest detail out of place that everything comes apart.
Pulping a book is just retiring an object which is beyond it's service live.
So long as there is another copy of the information in that book available, nothing of value has been lost. It's the loss of information in losing the last copy of a book which matters.
I specifically said organisations which weren't illegal, and therefore have no need to be clandestine. Political protest groups for example are not illegal, although they organise public protests, here in the UK the police seem to spend a lot of time infiltrating such organisations and acting as agent provocateurs from within, enabling (if not being the outright drive force towards) illegal activity.
It's not just about face recognition. If I was in a group which was likely to attracted undercover police attention without the organisation being outright illegal, such as the various environmental groups that the police have been targetting here in the UK.
I would be asking to see the facebook profile of anyone trying to get into the group and if they don't have one or their profile only goes back a few months I would be extremely suspicious.
The police don't just need the ability to stop facial recognition, they need to be allowed to craft entire profiles, with back dated statuses, relationships which can withstand superficial checking etc.
You break the cover of spy by catching the little lies, and facebook gives you a lot of small pieces of information which must all tie to together to avoid suspicion.
I think a 1 negative weighs more in the decision to contact/reply to a profile than 1 positive, so although although you maybe tall a single thing a prospective date see a bad more than counters the positive thing.
In my case, there are 2 negatives that stand out and which I've always thought explain my complete lack of success on dating sites.
1) I'm bald (women are never looking for talk shiny and handsome)
2) I don't drink
I think both of those things make a women pause, and once they have paused they don't tend to continue at all.
Aliens are like zombies, they are just a placeholder for a particular type of disaster without getting hung up on the exact rules of a pre-existing disaster.
Zombies are a biological/Social Disorder disaster Aliens would represent massive and sudden technological disaster (for example, massive communication failure with California)
quite possible, but I've only noticed it popping up over the last few days.