That would explain the Virginia gay marriage vote. It was an atrocious referendum, but most people probably just voted on it as a vote against gay marriage, ignoring the other implications. Unfortunately, they won't get to ignore them for long.
Learn what the Laffer Curve actually is before spouting off nonsense about it.
At 0% taxes, you get 0 revenue. At 100% taxes, you get zero revenue (because nobody works, or at least nobody reports earnings.) At percentages in between, you get revenue greater than zero. Thus at some tax rates, reducing the rate increases the revenue.
But what you say ignores that all-important qualifier. Laffer does not say that reducing the rate at any level increases tax revenue. Since it's a curve, there are plenty of points where reducing the rate reduces revenue. Since the tax rates before weren't causing high unemployment, if anything the evidence is that we were at a point where reducing the rate would reduce revenue.
There's a little more snow in Greenland, but that actually proves the warming, as the increased snow is due to higher air temperatures and thus the air can hold more moisture.
The lone Republican I'm probably going to vote for on Tuesday is Bob Erlich (Maryland Governor.) Why? Because he's spoken up against these voting machines.
I want voting results to be as indisputable as possible. Then, at the very worst, I can only rail against the stupidity of my fellow voters.
I admit it, I occasionally use myspace too, just because several members of the cast of "The Office" have pages. I've exchanged messages with Angela, the dour accountant. So I agree, not having music play when I check another user's page -- usually because they're an attractive young woman, I have to admit -- would be a good thing.
From wikipedia: "In 1994 De Beers was charged by the United States Justice Department with antitrust violations for conspiring to fix prices for industrial diamonds. On 14 July 2004 De Beers pleaded guilty to the charges and paid a $10 million fine. The plea has enabled De Beers to trade directly in the United States diamond market after years of acting through intermediaries."
The fine may be small, but De Beers was kept out of this country by the government for 10 years. I'd say that's a sign they don't have that much influence. Compared to GE, Exxon, and other multinationals, De Beers isn't actually all that big, and they don't have a big footprint in the U.S.
I didn't say they had no influence, I said they had a lot less.
De Beers isn't a U.S. company, and thus has a lot less influence than Microsoft, IBM, GE, et al. Businesses generally don't give money to change the opinions of congressmen, they help congressmen get and stay elected whose opinions match what they want. Microsoft brings lots of revenue to the state of Washington, so there's lots of folks there who think what's good for Microsoft is good for Washington state. De Beers would have a much harder time finding sympathetic candidates in this country.
Could you honestly have predicted in 2002 then that multi-core CPU's would be commonplace on laptops or even desktops?
Neither Intel nor AMD have a patent on the dual core concept, thank goodness.
In 1991, I was part of a research project at UNC -- Pixel-Planes -- that stored floating point texture coordinates on a per-pixel basis in a frame buffer. (I believe Greg Turk http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/ did the actual implementation.)
He said he has access to some of the largest and finest synthetics ever made, but when proposal time came, his financee would settle for nothing but a "real" rock.
don't bet on it. the dems are just as corrupt as the repubs, just bought out by different people
Yes, but the Hollywood types are less likely to want a war than the Halliburton/Bechtel/defense contractor crowd.
Also, if we don't have House/Senate/Presidency all held by the same party, then the most ridiculous stuff tends not to get advanced, and cronyism is somewhat less rampant. I hope I never see all three held by the same party again in my lifetime, Dem or Republican.
They are about protecting you investment in a device that is non-obvious and innovative (you got that part right). What this means is that even if ATI did invent this all by themselves, if SGI invented it before ATI, they are entitled to sue.
However, if both developed this independently and at about the same time, that's a pretty clear sign that it is not "non-obvious," and is in fact a natural extension of what came before.
Given a problem, if similar problems have been solved by the same solution, then that solution should *not* be patentable.
Juries can do whatever they please. Unless there is evidence of jury tampering, a jury can come back with a not guilty or guilty verdict regardless of the facts of the case. In the case of a not guilty verdict, that's the final word. You just need 12 jurors to agree. (Heck, they can ignore both the law and the facts, as in the OJ Simpson verdict.) A judge can explain matters of law to the jury, but the jury can ignore the explanation.
The phone bill add-ons are called "fees and service charges" insterad of taxes because they *aren't* taxes, the phone company is just trying to disguise them as such. It should be (but apparently isn't) prosecuted as fraud if they're advertising a service price and then adding on to it.
http://www.converium.com/2103.asp "Laches is recognized as an equitable defense available to defendants in patent infringement litigation under 35 U.S.C. Section 282 (1988). Laches enables the infringer to avoid liability if the patent holder delays too long before commencing litigation. The doctrine flows from the longstanding, fundamental legal principle that equity will not protect those who sleep on their rights."
Patent violation isn't a strict liability issue, unlike copyright.
You're correct about the burden of proof being on the defendant.
That works in Firefox links on the Mac for me, but not in iTunes or the Finder. If it were a general feature on Macs, I'd say that should be the optimal solution, minimal controls and a simple interface. (As an occasional Mac user in the past, I hated the control key as the option, simply because I would hit alt/cmd/shift until I finally hit control. I use the Mac more now, but never with a single button mouse.)
To get a contextual menu on the Mac, you hold the control key down when you click. It's oh-so-easy to do, but of course you have to know how to do it...
Not so good for the one-handed, no? It also requires you have a keyboard handy, where I can often get a lot done without ever touching a key if I have a multi-button mouse. Not everyone uses a computer while sitting at a desk, and indeed three of my four home computers are not in a desk-like setup.
That being said, the "desktop" Macs come with a Mighty Mouse, which supports multiple buttons if desired.
No statute of limitations, but there is the doctrine of laches. From wikipedia: "Laches is an equitable defense, or doctrine, in an action at law. The person invoking laches is asserting that an opposing party has "slept on its rights", and that, as a result of this delay, that other party is no longer entitled to its original claim. Put another way, failure to assert one's rights in a timely manner can result in claims being barred by laches. Laches is a form of estoppel for delay. In Latin,
Vigilantibus non dormientibus æquitas subvenit.
Equity aids the vigilant, not the negligent (that is, those who sleep on their rights). "
People who have addictive personalities will find endeavors to fill that role.
I've found there are very few people who haven't demonstrated at least some degree of addictive behavior. I had a brief "problem" with Neopets, solved handily by poor security at Neopets and a cross-site scripter who stole my cookie and looted my account, as well as customer support that silently refused to restore my account after it was frozen due to remaining scripts from the thief.
A difference with WoW from most such addictions, however, is that you have more active enablers. Few beer can collectors have other people encouraging them to collect more cans, that they need to stay up until 3 am to help with the quest for a can, etc. WoW apparently has these in spades.
If you read the article -- I kid, I KID! -- you'll find the pickaxe-handle wielding loony was actually accompanied by a machete-wielding loony, so seems like this was more than your average flame.
Can you use whitelist filters on your hotmail inbox? For my office mail, 95%+ of the incoming non-spam e-mail gets shuffled off to another folder by one of many filters. The inbox thus has a fairly high percentage of spam, but typically is less important email anyway.
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That would explain the Virginia gay marriage vote. It was an atrocious referendum, but most people probably just voted on it as a vote against gay marriage, ignoring the other implications. Unfortunately, they won't get to ignore them for long.
Learn what the Laffer Curve actually is before spouting off nonsense about it.
At 0% taxes, you get 0 revenue. At 100% taxes, you get zero revenue (because nobody works, or at least nobody reports earnings.) At percentages in between, you get revenue greater than zero. Thus at some tax rates, reducing the rate increases the revenue.
But what you say ignores that all-important qualifier. Laffer does not say that reducing the rate at any level increases tax revenue. Since it's a curve, there are plenty of points where reducing the rate reduces revenue. Since the tax rates before weren't causing high unemployment, if anything the evidence is that we were at a point where reducing the rate would reduce revenue.
Fittingly for this story, at my office they block youtube.
Uh, no.
There's a little more snow in Greenland, but that actually proves the warming, as the increased snow is due to higher air temperatures and thus the air can hold more moisture.
Feh.
The lone Republican I'm probably going to vote for on Tuesday is Bob Erlich (Maryland Governor.) Why? Because he's spoken up against these voting machines.
I want voting results to be as indisputable as possible. Then, at the very worst, I can only rail against the stupidity of my fellow voters.
I admit it, I occasionally use myspace too, just because several members of the cast of "The Office" have pages. I've exchanged messages with Angela, the dour accountant. So I agree, not having music play when I check another user's page -- usually because they're an attractive young woman, I have to admit -- would be a good thing.
From wikipedia: "In 1994 De Beers was charged by the United States Justice Department with antitrust violations for conspiring to fix prices for industrial diamonds. On 14 July 2004 De Beers pleaded guilty to the charges and paid a $10 million fine. The plea has enabled De Beers to trade directly in the United States diamond market after years of acting through intermediaries."
The fine may be small, but De Beers was kept out of this country by the government for 10 years. I'd say that's a sign they don't have that much influence. Compared to GE, Exxon, and other multinationals, De Beers isn't actually all that big, and they don't have a big footprint in the U.S.
I didn't say they had no influence, I said they had a lot less.
De Beers isn't a U.S. company, and thus has a lot less influence than Microsoft, IBM, GE, et al. Businesses generally don't give money to change the opinions of congressmen, they help congressmen get and stay elected whose opinions match what they want. Microsoft brings lots of revenue to the state of Washington, so there's lots of folks there who think what's good for Microsoft is good for Washington state. De Beers would have a much harder time finding sympathetic candidates in this country.
My friend, you are dark, cynical, and misogynistic.
And 100% correct.
Could you honestly have predicted in 2002 then that multi-core CPU's would be commonplace on laptops or even desktops?
Neither Intel nor AMD have a patent on the dual core concept, thank goodness.
In 1991, I was part of a research project at UNC -- Pixel-Planes -- that stored floating point texture coordinates on a per-pixel basis in a frame buffer. (I believe Greg Turk http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/ did the actual implementation.)
He said he has access to some of the largest and finest synthetics ever made, but when proposal time came, his financee would settle for nothing but a "real" rock.
Now that's an appropriate typo!
don't bet on it. the dems are just as corrupt as the repubs, just bought out by different people
Yes, but the Hollywood types are less likely to want a war than the Halliburton/Bechtel/defense contractor crowd.
Also, if we don't have House/Senate/Presidency all held by the same party, then the most ridiculous stuff tends not to get advanced, and cronyism is somewhat less rampant. I hope I never see all three held by the same party again in my lifetime, Dem or Republican.
They are about protecting you investment in a device that is non-obvious and innovative (you got that part right). What this means is that even if ATI did invent this all by themselves, if SGI invented it before ATI, they are entitled to sue.
However, if both developed this independently and at about the same time, that's a pretty clear sign that it is not "non-obvious," and is in fact a natural extension of what came before.
Given a problem, if similar problems have been solved by the same solution, then that solution should *not* be patentable.
Juries can do whatever they please. Unless there is evidence of jury tampering, a jury can come back with a not guilty or guilty verdict regardless of the facts of the case. In the case of a not guilty verdict, that's the final word. You just need 12 jurors to agree. (Heck, they can ignore both the law and the facts, as in the OJ Simpson verdict.) A judge can explain matters of law to the jury, but the jury can ignore the explanation.
The phone bill add-ons are called "fees and service charges" insterad of taxes because they *aren't* taxes, the phone company is just trying to disguise them as such. It should be (but apparently isn't) prosecuted as fraud if they're advertising a service price and then adding on to it.
I don't think you're right.
http://www.converium.com/2103.asp
"Laches is recognized as an equitable defense available to defendants in patent infringement litigation under 35 U.S.C. Section 282 (1988). Laches enables the infringer to avoid liability if the patent holder delays too long before commencing litigation. The doctrine flows from the longstanding, fundamental legal principle that equity will not protect those who sleep on their rights."
Patent violation isn't a strict liability issue, unlike copyright.
You're correct about the burden of proof being on the defendant.
That works in Firefox links on the Mac for me, but not in iTunes or the Finder. If it were a general feature on Macs, I'd say that should be the optimal solution, minimal controls and a simple interface. (As an occasional Mac user in the past, I hated the control key as the option, simply because I would hit alt/cmd/shift until I finally hit control. I use the Mac more now, but never with a single button mouse.)
To get a contextual menu on the Mac, you hold the control key down when you click. It's oh-so-easy to do, but of course you have to know how to do it...
Not so good for the one-handed, no? It also requires you have a keyboard handy, where I can often get a lot done without ever touching a key if I have a multi-button mouse. Not everyone uses a computer while sitting at a desk, and indeed three of my four home computers are not in a desk-like setup.
That being said, the "desktop" Macs come with a Mighty Mouse, which supports multiple buttons if desired.
No statute of limitations, but there is the doctrine of laches. From wikipedia: "Laches is an equitable defense, or doctrine, in an action at law. The person invoking laches is asserting that an opposing party has "slept on its rights", and that, as a result of this delay, that other party is no longer entitled to its original claim. Put another way, failure to assert one's rights in a timely manner can result in claims being barred by laches. Laches is a form of estoppel for delay. In Latin,
Vigilantibus non dormientibus æquitas subvenit.
Equity aids the vigilant, not the negligent (that is, those who sleep on their rights). "
People who have addictive personalities will find endeavors to fill that role.
I've found there are very few people who haven't demonstrated at least some degree of addictive behavior. I had a brief "problem" with Neopets, solved handily by poor security at Neopets and a cross-site scripter who stole my cookie and looted my account, as well as customer support that silently refused to restore my account after it was frozen due to remaining scripts from the thief.
A difference with WoW from most such addictions, however, is that you have more active enablers. Few beer can collectors have other people encouraging them to collect more cans, that they need to stay up until 3 am to help with the quest for a can, etc. WoW apparently has these in spades.
Good thing he died before dejanews got started
I'm glad to hear you got your revenge, then.
If you read the article -- I kid, I KID! -- you'll find the pickaxe-handle wielding loony was actually accompanied by a machete-wielding loony, so seems like this was more than your average flame.
You're ruining the myth that low ID get all the girls.
It's no myth! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a couple of blondes to get back to before they get cold...
Me too.
I have got to go on a diet...
Can you use whitelist filters on your hotmail inbox? For my office mail, 95%+ of the incoming non-spam e-mail gets shuffled off to another folder by one of many filters. The inbox thus has a fairly high percentage of spam, but typically is less important email anyway.