If he's making enough for it to be taxable, then there's no distinction between him and a 19 year old doing the same amount of work. It's not that I think 14 year olds should be tapped for taxes, just that there's no real justification for setting an age limit.
Yes there is, and in fact it's a principle our country was founded on -- no taxation without representation. The 19 year old can vote, the 14 year old can't.
Here's a couple of take home messages - the canonical study would be to see if low dose aspirin helps you live longer (live 'better' would be a much more useful metric, but pretty much impossible to do).
No one with arthritis needs a scientific study to know that aspirin does indeed help the quality of life. All analgesics do, that is if they work on you (Tylenol has no effect on me at all, except perhaps liver damage). Likewise, you don't need a scientific study to know that if you go outside in the rain you'll get wet, and if you stick your hand in a flame it will burn.
As to statistics, it's just the odds and isn't predictable for any given person. For example, it's proven that cigarettes cause cancer and lead to a short life, but my great uncle started smoking at age 12 and quit at age 82, and lived another 12 years. But just because he lived a very long life despite his smoking doesn't mean smoking's not dangerous. Likewise, just because fewer people who take aspirin daily get cancer than those that don't doesn't mean that if you take aspirin you don't need to worry about cancer.
No, they're not. Most everyone I know has a CRT (usually a TV). I don't think CRTs are sold any more, but it was only a few years ago they were commonplace in stores while newer displays were expensive, and CRTs last a LONG time. I had a Panasonic TV I bought in 1968, it still worked when I left it behind in my foreclosed house in 2004.
A monitor I bought in 1995 just bit the dust a couple of months ago, and a little switch oil would probably repair it.
Wired phones? There's one on my desk at work with a dial tone. Rotary dial? haven't seen one in decades.
Yes, but a patent only lasts 20 years. Copyright it and you're covered for the rest of your life and then some. Patent laws are batshit crazy unless you compare them to copyright, which makes patents look sane by comparison.
Imagine how technological progress would suffer if patents lased as long as copyrights? That's how art is suffering.
Personally, I'd much rather have an economic catastrophe than an environmental one. You think giving up fossil fuels is bad, what about your great grandchildren's economic disaster when Miami and New York are under water and Phoenix has 150 degree days?
It's pretty damned selfish to not think of future generations. But I expect no less than selfishness from anyone who worships money.
Hmmm, that's odd, this "news" story reads like one of those ads trying to sell me something. Is this ancient Chinese secret or midwest housewife research?
Neither, it was on TV news last night. It's a peer-reviewed study with unexpected results. Here are a couple of more reputable sources than the stupid FA that I didn't bother reading:
Unfortunately, many folks seem to pick the least reputable rag they can find as a link for their submissions, often their own blogs.
Aspirin isn't for everyone. Kids under 16 shouldn't take it, especially if they have the flu, and if you have stomach or digestive problems, hemophilia, or a few other conditions aspirin can be dangerous.
I wonder if Naproxin Sodium prevents cancer? I stopped taking aspirin when the patent on Alieve went away.
A nice fun article (annoyingly presented for maximum ad viewing as usual)
Which is why I refuse to RTFA. IT World is crap. I refuse to wade through twenty screens for ten paragraphs of ad-laden content. No way I can trust a site like that to serve up anything useful.
Iâ(TM)ll add is what I can only refer to as âoethe CRT soundâ.
You only got that with big monitors with big degaussers. My old 42 inch Trinitron does that. Also, he missed the (subaudible to most people) squeal of the flyback transformer in TVs and monitors.
Did he add the static between TV channels on old sets with knobs? Tape hiss? Vinyl scratches? The whirrs and clicks of a VCR ejecting? The strange noises on AM radio between stations (you can hear these on ST:TOS' subspace radios)?
Computer scientists aren't responsible for the bugs in your software; they don't write software. They research ways to design better circuits and algorithms; math, not programming. Your typical software "engineer" is usually someone with less than a Master's degree.
Ask an MSCE to draw a schematic of a NAND gate. He's not likely to even know what one is.
I read a paper last year (wish I could find it) by a fellow working on his CS PhD about slashdot's moderation system. Very insightful stuff in the article, and nothing any MS programmer would likely be capable of.
That depends on where you live. Your local and state taxes vary greatly. In Florida, the tourists pay most of the taxes, in Alaska the oil companies do. As to Federal taxes, they're lower than they've been in my lifetime, and I turn 60 in a couple of weeks. But the Goddamned Illinois state income tax doubled last year. I may move to Missouri when I retire.
Indeed, I would have expected this from Sony. Only Sony customers would put up with something like that. Before you mod me down, remember XCP, OtherOS, and customer CC info in plain text on insecure, internet-facing computers.
But Samsung? Guess they'll go in my "never buy from them" list, too. Never give money to someone who refuses to show respect and gratitude.
That exact thing happened to me in a bar the other day. I had my little notebook with me, tagging MP3s and somebody asks "Is that anything like a computer?"
I was dumbfounded for a second and said "it IS a computer" and showed them Google. Wound up looking up a dog show on YouTube for them, and reminded myself that having someone spill a beer on your computer isn't the only reason not to take it to the bar.
No it isn't. Wasn't it Nietzsche who said "that which doesn't kill me makes me stronger"? Tell that to someone with brain damage and two missing arms from an auto wreck.
The OS is Linux-based and couldn't possibly cost much. There's no way one of these is worth the price of an iMac. An earlier poster noted how he put together a comparable one of far less than half the price, paying retail for the parts, and I'd bet it took him less than a half hour to assemble.
No, $2500 for one of these is rediculous unless you make $2500 an hour.
Who the hell is moderating today? None of the comments I've seen so far except the first one have anything whatever to do with the Raspberry Pi, yet these offtopic comments are being modded up!
WTF? I didn't come here to read about your damned love lives, I came to read about Pi cases. I plan on getting a Pi and building an MP3 player out of it, and maybe a complete entertainment system in time. I want to hear what others are planning to do.
But you guys just want to talk about your imaginary girlfriends. How about saving that for your damned journal, where it belongs?
Actually, if you look at what climate scientists say, global warming will cause some areas to be warmer and some colder, some wetter and some dryer.
However, I think this years anomalous weather probably has more to do with the El Nino and La Nina cycles than climate change.
And "winter into summer?" Where? We had a very mild winter this year and record high temperatures in March (the last 4 days broke records here), but in the summer it gets in the nineties. I doubt I'll ever see ninety degrees in February here. The headline was a gross exageration.
Can someone explain to me why the parent comment is modded "troll"? No, never mind; any time anyone says anything negative about any damned company, no matter how truthful and even insightful the comment, some stupid little fanboy will call it a troll.
I agree with the parent, at least on the "price" part, which is indisputable; Apple gear is high priced. Price is the single reason I have no iThings. As to the "use less", my daughter has one computing device, her iPhone, while I'll be listening to the radio and ripping CDs on one computer while uploading and downloading torrents and surfing slashdot on the other (and probably talking on my Motorola feature phone too). Yes, a sample of two is far too small, but my favorite Apple user uses far less computing resources than this Linux nerd.
So come on, Apple fanbois, waste your mod points on me so you won't go modding another insightful comment you don't like as "troll". I wish you kids would stop abusing the moderation system.
It didn't happen this year, but the previous two years I'd made errors which the IRS corrected, and both times I got back about $1000 more than I had expected.
We have a Green Party here in the US, too. Their Presidential candidate was on enough ballots last election to win, had the media given them coverage instead of convincing you that we only have two parties, or that a vote for a Green or Libertarian (also on enough ballots to win, as was the Constitution Party) is "wasted".
You know why our voter turnout is so low here? The above explains it. Rather than choosing between eating a shit sandwich and poking yourself in the eye with a stick, they just stay home.
The Dems and GOP want to put some of your friends and family in jail for an innocent, harmless activity. Someone you love smokes marijuana. Why are you voting for candidates who want to incarcerate your loved ones?
I'm not sure about the CPs, but neither the Greens nor Libbies want to put your dope smoking son in law in prison. I'll be voting GP this November, as I did last election.
A lot of the same arguments can be used for the Mac platform in my opinion though.
That's true. It isn't so much that Linux is superior, it's that Windows is an inferior POS. Afaik, the only downside to Apple is price.
AV should be everywhere. Heck a virus writer just has to hack your browser and they can get most things that interest them since you likely browse the internet to your work, bank etc.
Just not being stupid will keep trojans out of a Mac or Linux box, even though you could write a trojan for those platforms. Windows computers are the only instances I know of with "drive-by infections" where simply visiting a web site or reading an email infects your computer. I do agree that the average user isn't cautious enough, which is the best reason for him to buy a Mac or install Linux.
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If he's making enough for it to be taxable, then there's no distinction between him and a 19 year old doing the same amount of work. It's not that I think 14 year olds should be tapped for taxes, just that there's no real justification for setting an age limit.
Yes there is, and in fact it's a principle our country was founded on -- no taxation without representation. The 19 year old can vote, the 14 year old can't.
Here's a couple of take home messages - the canonical study would be to see if low dose aspirin helps you live longer (live 'better' would be a much more useful metric, but pretty much impossible to do).
No one with arthritis needs a scientific study to know that aspirin does indeed help the quality of life. All analgesics do, that is if they work on you (Tylenol has no effect on me at all, except perhaps liver damage). Likewise, you don't need a scientific study to know that if you go outside in the rain you'll get wet, and if you stick your hand in a flame it will burn.
As to statistics, it's just the odds and isn't predictable for any given person. For example, it's proven that cigarettes cause cancer and lead to a short life, but my great uncle started smoking at age 12 and quit at age 82, and lived another 12 years. But just because he lived a very long life despite his smoking doesn't mean smoking's not dangerous. Likewise, just because fewer people who take aspirin daily get cancer than those that don't doesn't mean that if you take aspirin you don't need to worry about cancer.
CRT's really are rare now afaik.
No, they're not. Most everyone I know has a CRT (usually a TV). I don't think CRTs are sold any more, but it was only a few years ago they were commonplace in stores while newer displays were expensive, and CRTs last a LONG time. I had a Panasonic TV I bought in 1968, it still worked when I left it behind in my foreclosed house in 2004.
A monitor I bought in 1995 just bit the dust a couple of months ago, and a little switch oil would probably repair it.
Wired phones? There's one on my desk at work with a dial tone. Rotary dial? haven't seen one in decades.
Doubt science because of economics?
Economics is a religion to those who worship money. Any science that challenges or threatens their little green god must be wrong!
Also, unless things have changed in the 5-years I've been out of uni, the SI unit of weight is the Newton.
So, how many grams does a Newton weigh?
Yes, but a patent only lasts 20 years. Copyright it and you're covered for the rest of your life and then some. Patent laws are batshit crazy unless you compare them to copyright, which makes patents look sane by comparison.
Imagine how technological progress would suffer if patents lased as long as copyrights? That's how art is suffering.
Personally, I'd much rather have an economic catastrophe than an environmental one. You think giving up fossil fuels is bad, what about your great grandchildren's economic disaster when Miami and New York are under water and Phoenix has 150 degree days?
It's pretty damned selfish to not think of future generations. But I expect no less than selfishness from anyone who worships money.
I don't know what a "use tax" is either, but you guys have to pay property tax on cars (my dad lives in Poplar Bluff). I'd call that a "use tax".
Hmmm, that's odd, this "news" story reads like one of those ads trying to sell me something. Is this ancient Chinese secret or midwest housewife research?
Neither, it was on TV news last night. It's a peer-reviewed study with unexpected results. Here are a couple of more reputable sources than the stupid FA that I didn't bother reading:
Can aspirin really reduce the risk of cancer?
Studies Link Daily Doses of Aspirin to Reduced Risk of Cancer
Unfortunately, many folks seem to pick the least reputable rag they can find as a link for their submissions, often their own blogs.
Aspirin isn't for everyone. Kids under 16 shouldn't take it, especially if they have the flu, and if you have stomach or digestive problems, hemophilia, or a few other conditions aspirin can be dangerous.
I wonder if Naproxin Sodium prevents cancer? I stopped taking aspirin when the patent on Alieve went away.
A nice fun article (annoyingly presented for maximum ad viewing as usual)
Which is why I refuse to RTFA. IT World is crap. I refuse to wade through twenty screens for ten paragraphs of ad-laden content. No way I can trust a site like that to serve up anything useful.
Iâ(TM)ll add is what I can only refer to as âoethe CRT soundâ.
You only got that with big monitors with big degaussers. My old 42 inch Trinitron does that. Also, he missed the (subaudible to most people) squeal of the flyback transformer in TVs and monitors.
Did he add the static between TV channels on old sets with knobs? Tape hiss? Vinyl scratches? The whirrs and clicks of a VCR ejecting? The strange noises on AM radio between stations (you can hear these on ST:TOS' subspace radios)?
I'm waiting on one based on Nyquist.
Computer scientists aren't responsible for the bugs in your software; they don't write software. They research ways to design better circuits and algorithms; math, not programming. Your typical software "engineer" is usually someone with less than a Master's degree.
Ask an MSCE to draw a schematic of a NAND gate. He's not likely to even know what one is.
I read a paper last year (wish I could find it) by a fellow working on his CS PhD about slashdot's moderation system. Very insightful stuff in the article, and nothing any MS programmer would likely be capable of.
That depends on where you live. Your local and state taxes vary greatly. In Florida, the tourists pay most of the taxes, in Alaska the oil companies do. As to Federal taxes, they're lower than they've been in my lifetime, and I turn 60 in a couple of weeks. But the Goddamned Illinois state income tax doubled last year. I may move to Missouri when I retire.
Indeed, I would have expected this from Sony. Only Sony customers would put up with something like that. Before you mod me down, remember XCP, OtherOS, and customer CC info in plain text on insecure, internet-facing computers.
But Samsung? Guess they'll go in my "never buy from them" list, too. Never give money to someone who refuses to show respect and gratitude.
Gambling, prostitution, distilling...
That exact thing happened to me in a bar the other day. I had my little notebook with me, tagging MP3s and somebody asks "Is that anything like a computer?"
I was dumbfounded for a second and said "it IS a computer" and showed them Google. Wound up looking up a dog show on YouTube for them, and reminded myself that having someone spill a beer on your computer isn't the only reason not to take it to the bar.
No it isn't. Wasn't it Nietzsche who said "that which doesn't kill me makes me stronger"? Tell that to someone with brain damage and two missing arms from an auto wreck.
Nietzsche is way over rated IMO.
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that.
The OS is Linux-based and couldn't possibly cost much. There's no way one of these is worth the price of an iMac. An earlier poster noted how he put together a comparable one of far less than half the price, paying retail for the parts, and I'd bet it took him less than a half hour to assemble.
No, $2500 for one of these is rediculous unless you make $2500 an hour.
Who the hell is moderating today? None of the comments I've seen so far except the first one have anything whatever to do with the Raspberry Pi, yet these offtopic comments are being modded up!
WTF? I didn't come here to read about your damned love lives, I came to read about Pi cases. I plan on getting a Pi and building an MP3 player out of it, and maybe a complete entertainment system in time. I want to hear what others are planning to do.
But you guys just want to talk about your imaginary girlfriends. How about saving that for your damned journal, where it belongs?
Actually, if you look at what climate scientists say, global warming will cause some areas to be warmer and some colder, some wetter and some dryer.
However, I think this years anomalous weather probably has more to do with the El Nino and La Nina cycles than climate change.
And "winter into summer?" Where? We had a very mild winter this year and record high temperatures in March (the last 4 days broke records here), but in the summer it gets in the nineties. I doubt I'll ever see ninety degrees in February here. The headline was a gross exageration.
Can someone explain to me why the parent comment is modded "troll"? No, never mind; any time anyone says anything negative about any damned company, no matter how truthful and even insightful the comment, some stupid little fanboy will call it a troll.
I agree with the parent, at least on the "price" part, which is indisputable; Apple gear is high priced. Price is the single reason I have no iThings. As to the "use less", my daughter has one computing device, her iPhone, while I'll be listening to the radio and ripping CDs on one computer while uploading and downloading torrents and surfing slashdot on the other (and probably talking on my Motorola feature phone too). Yes, a sample of two is far too small, but my favorite Apple user uses far less computing resources than this Linux nerd.
So come on, Apple fanbois, waste your mod points on me so you won't go modding another insightful comment you don't like as "troll". I wish you kids would stop abusing the moderation system.
It didn't happen this year, but the previous two years I'd made errors which the IRS corrected, and both times I got back about $1000 more than I had expected.
Both sides here in the states
We have a Green Party here in the US, too. Their Presidential candidate was on enough ballots last election to win, had the media given them coverage instead of convincing you that we only have two parties, or that a vote for a Green or Libertarian (also on enough ballots to win, as was the Constitution Party) is "wasted".
You know why our voter turnout is so low here? The above explains it. Rather than choosing between eating a shit sandwich and poking yourself in the eye with a stick, they just stay home.
The Dems and GOP want to put some of your friends and family in jail for an innocent, harmless activity. Someone you love smokes marijuana. Why are you voting for candidates who want to incarcerate your loved ones?
I'm not sure about the CPs, but neither the Greens nor Libbies want to put your dope smoking son in law in prison. I'll be voting GP this November, as I did last election.
A lot of the same arguments can be used for the Mac platform in my opinion though.
That's true. It isn't so much that Linux is superior, it's that Windows is an inferior POS. Afaik, the only downside to Apple is price.
AV should be everywhere. Heck a virus writer just has to hack your browser and they can get most things that interest them since you likely browse the internet to your work, bank etc.
Just not being stupid will keep trojans out of a Mac or Linux box, even though you could write a trojan for those platforms. Windows computers are the only instances I know of with "drive-by infections" where simply visiting a web site or reading an email infects your computer. I do agree that the average user isn't cautious enough, which is the best reason for him to buy a Mac or install Linux.