Well, it's one harder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be hardest at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your hardness. Where can you go from there? Where?
I don't think it is evil for a corporation to make the best deal it can. The article left out a very important figure. How much tax will Google be paying over the next 30 years? North Carolina is not giving Google money, Google will just be paying less than if they moved there without negotiating tax breaks.
With today's technology, a corporation can locate in any state. So just like businesses compete for customers, governments need to compete to attract businesses. North Carolina will be getting taxes from Google, income tax from Google's employees, sales taxes from Google and their employees doing business in NC and so on. It will definitely be a large net gain for North Carolina.
The non-disclosure statements don't bother me unless they violated any state sunshine laws. When a business deal is made, it's between the parties involved. Like Ludacris says "Stay outta my biznass."
(BTW the article is not clear if 100 million is the maximum amount of tax breaks or if it is 89 million in breaks plus up to 100 million more.)
How about the kidnapper told the victim that his parents hated him and gave him away?
He may have posted messages on the website his parents created to try to find him. If he did, he was well aware they thought he was abducted and wanted him back.
I think we are going to see a major shift in high school and college education in the next 10 -20 years. More and more students are going to switch to online schooling. They recently started online schooling in my state and a lot of students are trying it out. If it is successful, I think the state will really push it. At first, mainly to save on transportation, building and overcrowding costs. It will be interesting to see how this will compare to traditional schooling and how it will affect things like extracurricular activities.
Typical technology reporting. Don't worry about the facts and details, get the most sensational headline. When it comes to technology, reporters seem to be pretty clueless.
to spite MS and reinstall my original OS - Slackware? I only installed openSuse because all I had every used was Slackware and I wanted to try some other distributions (after I couldn't get XGL/Compiz to work on Slackware).
Yes, it would be another useless law. Last time I checked, Firefox can control what cookies you get. Tool:Options:Privacy:Cookies:Exceptions. If you want to control cookies, just block all cookies and use the exceptions list to accept the ones you want. Quit making laws about crap the doesn't matter.
I still don't understand why voting has to be such a mess.
Because there are a lot of dumbasses out there that mess up when they vote. It doesn't matter what voting system you use.
eg:
BridgeMaster: "What is your favorite color?"
Sir Robin: "Blue... No red! Aaaieeeeeeee!"
The most likely scenario is usually correct. The most likely scenario here is user error. We've all read the tales from the service desk about people doing the most stupid things with computers. Those same people also vote. You could have a vote using only a big blue button and a big red button, like a fischer price toy, and a certain percent of the population would still screw it up.
The article says the guy owns a bar. He was probably drunk and voted for the wrong person.
Wait a minute. What you are saying seems to defy common sense. In space, if you throw an object, it will continue in that direction until resistance is met. So, if the space station is 220 to 250 miles out in orbit and you throw or eject a package of trash toward the earth at 20 miles per hour (that seems reasonably simple). The package would travel 220 to 250 miles in 11 to 12.5 hours. It would be incinerated well before that. Am I missing something? Is there some principle of physics that would cause it's descent to slow as it's orbit decreased? It seems to me, that it would speed up if anything.
"It's REALLY nice to be able to walk over and grab whatever I need, no car required." Not if you have a family and are shopping for 5 people. But all those bags would give your biceps a nice workout.
The explaination that I was given by a Brazilian was that Americans tended to say dates as "November third, two thousand six", hence it was abreviated as mm/dd/yyyy. Where folks in other contries, particularly non-English speaking countries, tended to say dates as "The third of November, two thousand six", hence the dd/mm/yyyy format.
Me, I would prefer the yyyy/mm/dd format because you can easily sort it without reformatting.
Why is reporting on technology always done so badly? Unless it is in a technology specific publication (which are usually feature articles, not news articles), you can bet that some part of the story will be inaccurate.
I saw a NOVA program about synthetic rubys, sapphires and such. They added some kind of doping that made them fluoresce under a certain wavelength of light. Maybe such a thing is done with these synthetic diamonds. For me, that would make them even more desirable;)
I've tried to explain how to access usenet to several friends, some of them pretty computer savvy. None of them really understood how to use it. Plus they didn't like the fact that what they were searching for probably wasn't there and they would have to post a request and/or check back regularly. They wanted more instant results.
I've also noticed that the files on usenet seem to have much better quality than other sources (at least the files I'm looking for).
Since when is the opinion of some crackpot deemed to be a scientific theory? The whole basis of his theory is that people will become "choosier about their sexual partners". He is totally clueless about of the psychology of the human male.
2005 cd/dvd music sales figures for 2005 in the top 20 markets ~ 915.2 million units
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music_market)
Annual sales of vinyl singles are now ~ 1.4 million
(http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12097)
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Well, it's one harder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be hardest at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your hardness. Where can you go from there? Where?
/geology goes Spinal Tap
I don't think it is evil for a corporation to make the best deal it can. The article left out a very important figure. How much tax will Google be paying over the next 30 years? North Carolina is not giving Google money, Google will just be paying less than if they moved there without negotiating tax breaks. With today's technology, a corporation can locate in any state. So just like businesses compete for customers, governments need to compete to attract businesses. North Carolina will be getting taxes from Google, income tax from Google's employees, sales taxes from Google and their employees doing business in NC and so on. It will definitely be a large net gain for North Carolina.
The non-disclosure statements don't bother me unless they violated any state sunshine laws. When a business deal is made, it's between the parties involved. Like Ludacris says "Stay outta my biznass."
(BTW the article is not clear if 100 million is the maximum amount of tax breaks or if it is 89 million in breaks plus up to 100 million more.)
Do a search for 'Terry Tate' on youtube and you will see actual full length commercials posted.
He may have posted messages on the website his parents created to try to find him. If he did, he was well aware they thought he was abducted and wanted him back.
I think we are going to see a major shift in high school and college education in the next 10 -20 years. More and more students are going to switch to online schooling. They recently started online schooling in my state and a lot of students are trying it out. If it is successful, I think the state will really push it. At first, mainly to save on transportation, building and overcrowding costs. It will be interesting to see how this will compare to traditional schooling and how it will affect things like extracurricular activities.
decapitate? I think you mean -HEADSHOT!-.
Typical technology reporting. Don't worry about the facts and details, get the most sensational headline. When it comes to technology, reporters seem to be pretty clueless.
to spite MS and reinstall my original OS - Slackware? I only installed openSuse because all I had every used was Slackware and I wanted to try some other distributions (after I couldn't get XGL/Compiz to work on Slackware).
Yes, it would be another useless law. Last time I checked, Firefox can control what cookies you get. Tool:Options:Privacy:Cookies:Exceptions. If you want to control cookies, just block all cookies and use the exceptions list to accept the ones you want. Quit making laws about crap the doesn't matter.
I still don't understand why voting has to be such a mess.
Because there are a lot of dumbasses out there that mess up when they vote. It doesn't matter what voting system you use.
eg:
BridgeMaster: "What is your favorite color?"
Sir Robin: "Blue... No red! Aaaieeeeeeee!"
The most likely scenario is usually correct. The most likely scenario here is user error. We've all read the tales from the service desk about people doing the most stupid things with computers. Those same people also vote. You could have a vote using only a big blue button and a big red button, like a fischer price toy, and a certain percent of the population would still screw it up. The article says the guy owns a bar. He was probably drunk and voted for the wrong person.
Not necessarily. You have to consider the possibility that the guy is just a dumbass and screwed up when he tried to vote for himself.
Wait a minute. What you are saying seems to defy common sense. In space, if you throw an object, it will continue in that direction until resistance is met. So, if the space station is 220 to 250 miles out in orbit and you throw or eject a package of trash toward the earth at 20 miles per hour (that seems reasonably simple). The package would travel 220 to 250 miles in 11 to 12.5 hours. It would be incinerated well before that. Am I missing something? Is there some principle of physics that would cause it's descent to slow as it's orbit decreased? It seems to me, that it would speed up if anything.
I've been in the ocean, but I've never been on the moon.
"It's REALLY nice to be able to walk over and grab whatever I need, no car required."
Not if you have a family and are shopping for 5 people. But all those bags would give your biceps a nice workout.
The explaination that I was given by a Brazilian was that Americans tended to say dates as "November third, two thousand six", hence it was abreviated as mm/dd/yyyy. Where folks in other contries, particularly non-English speaking countries, tended to say dates as "The third of November, two thousand six", hence the dd/mm/yyyy format.
Me, I would prefer the yyyy/mm/dd format because you can easily sort it without reformatting.
Why is reporting on technology always done so badly? Unless it is in a technology specific publication (which are usually feature articles, not news articles), you can bet that some part of the story will be inaccurate.
Stop using myspace.
Theocratic? Last time I checked, we still elect our government representatives.
I saw a NOVA program about synthetic rubys, sapphires and such. They added some kind of doping that made them fluoresce under a certain wavelength of light. Maybe such a thing is done with these synthetic diamonds. For me, that would make them even more desirable;)
I've tried to explain how to access usenet to several friends, some of them pretty computer savvy. None of them really understood how to use it. Plus they didn't like the fact that what they were searching for probably wasn't there and they would have to post a request and/or check back regularly. They wanted more instant results. I've also noticed that the files on usenet seem to have much better quality than other sources (at least the files I'm looking for).
Since when is the opinion of some crackpot deemed to be a scientific theory? The whole basis of his theory is that people will become "choosier about their sexual partners". He is totally clueless about of the psychology of the human male.
and beryl?
2005 cd/dvd music sales figures for 2005 in the top 20 markets ~ 915.2 million units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music_market) Annual sales of vinyl singles are now ~ 1.4 million (http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12097)