I think you can take a look at just the mortgage interest deduction. It could be argued whether this is a good thing or not (the intent being that home ownership is a good thing). Regardless, removing it would add thousands of dollars to families tax burden which would cause many to have to sell their homes (causing another mortgage crisis). Offsetting the thousands of dollars in lost deductions with a tax reduction would mean the non-home owners would get a big tax cut from what they previously paid which quickly reduces revenue and makes balancing the budget harder.
We've seen what happens when the housing market gets screwed with. Sadly I think this becomes one of the so-called sacred cows.
No death for the guilty will erase the pain of those who lost their love ones or the victims.
Would the pro-death-penalty group leader have preferred a torturous method? Or one that matches the way the victims died? There is a logic to it, but it would not be palatable for a civilized society (aside from perhaps ancient Rome).
While you make good points, we must keep in mind what sorts of costs could be introduced by a heavy-weight process.
A good example is from the criminal system: life sentence vs death penalty. Death penalty cases are more expensive than usual cases due to the burden of proof, multiple rounds of appeals, etc that are intended to make 100% sure an innocent man isn't executed (which sadly still happens occasionally). Would something similar get introduced here? Tests to make sure the person is competent, not coerced, maybe have to spend a week off of pain killers to ensure the drugs aren't doing the talking, etc. Paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork. We wouldn't want a bad doctor to cover up their mistake by saying "it was assisted suicide".
I think a bigger problem is that the surface area of an 'airliner' can never provide enough energy to keep it in the air even with 100% conversion efficiency at noon.
Yep. approx 30 kWh per gallon of fuel, a 747 is burning approx 1 gal/second, so 100K kW (3600x30) needed. Solar gives us approx 1kW / square meter, so we need about 100K square meters of solar panels on our 747. Our 747 has approx 1000 sq m top surface, so solar would provide 1% of the power needed even in optimal conditions.
What if we didn't think about the 747 use-case but focused on the commuter flights. As noted higher up, there are limitations with night flying, clouds, and East-bound travel is restricted. But there sure are a lot of flights that simply go up and down the East or West coast that only fly for 30 minutes to an hour. Or, could a battery last for 30 minutes of flight for a commuter plane?
/. Must have been hacked with this worthless article from a programmer that is still deciding between emacs and Eclipse.
Yo Willie, you can write shit code in any language, any IDE when you are a crappy programmer. IDEs help you better debug, code complete and refactor you crappy code.
IDEs are supposed to make software engineers more effective and efficient. Yes they help get past certain rough spots in languages, but should I go to a simpler IDE just because it makes me more manly (as TFS almost suggests)? Give me whatever tool makes me more efficient and effective at my job. If it's a heavy-weight, 2G of memory tool that kicks ass and isn't slow then so be it.
I'm sure that hydroelectric plants can handle the extra water pressure from a few feet extra flow. The pressure that reaches the impeller is probably very stable.
It's standard treatment in Sweden. If the crime is non-trivial, the attorney almost always requests solitary confinement. The reason is to prevent the accused from interfering with the criminal investigation, but I think at least partly it's done in order to break the accused, helping the interrogations.
As is the case with most slashdotters, he should be immune to their tricks. Better than being surrounded by frat boys and jocks (aka general population).
The article summary is deliberately inflammatory. It's not "stealing" - it's exactly the sort of sharing which I assume a "pirate" would support. The original DivX site hasn't lost the use of these subtitles. Indeed, it's been given free advertising. The best thing it could do is issue a press release congratulating Netflix for acting in the spirit of cooperation and free dissemination. Everyone wins.
Except that they demand money.
Ripping of some ip and sharing it for free is different from ripping it of and selling it for profit.
But in this case, it's ripping off IP that was part of ripping off IP and the second rip-off-er licensed the content that was originally ripped off. The pirates can't copyright what it takes to pirate the work (even American fair-use or derivative work laws don't cover straight-out copying). Pirating lives in a grey space (technically illegal but dubious in market impact depending on the case-by-case basis) and I don't think they have a peg-leg to stand on in this circumstance.
But it still makes Netflix look stupid, especially when they leave in the reference to the pirate group.
Statistically speaking, people who live in big cities are more against TSA than people who live in smaller cities in fly-over states (who are pro-TSA because it protects their barn from getting rammed by a 737). They are simply moving their equipment to serve the "customers" who are demanding it.
I hope this results in the small-town and rural population becoming anti-TSA.
Some of these "illegal practices" are simply asking for your zip code when using your credit card at the gas pump because that was supposedly identifying information (like the credit card part wasn't). Most businesses swat these types of lawsuits like flies (i.e. settle for cheap) because there is no plaintiff and the lawyer just wants his pay day.
The real illegal practices that you hope to have fixed by a class action lawsuit (be it making cigarettes more addictive, illegal dumping or disabling Face Time over LTE) would be fought, delayed, and maneuvered around for so long that it's long, hard, and rare that the practices get changed.
I mean, if you listen to the current political babblers on TV here in the US, you'd get the impression that they're downright flabbergasted that Romney isn't polling in the single digits or low teens. (I have one reason why... Obama killed an American Citizen with a drone.... pissing on the right of due process and innocence until proven guilty all in the name of "war on Terrah!")
Two thoughts. First, it does depend on the station. CNN's panels have a mix of Republicans and Democrats. MSNBC and FOX are apologetically biased (FOX going as far as to demonize the rest of the media). Second, why isn't this a campaign topic? Why hasn't it been in a debate or in a Romney speech? The only reason I can think of is that he doesn't disagree with it and would do more or less the same (probably less since the whole wouldn't-have-killed-Bin-Laden thing).
I'm not being dismissive; I really wish national security (other than the Libya thing, but DHS and TSA - yes we have talked Iran) were part of the conversation because those are Obama's weakest spots. The only reason why I can think they aren't is because Romney doesn't disagree and wouldn't do anything differently.
My kid sucks at chemistry and, like all pussy-ass parents today, I don't have the heart to tell him that he's not incredible at everything (and don't want to risk him finding out by taking a class where he doesn't get an automatic "A").
You know that next week he'll be complaining about the lack of public speaking and music classes in public schools.
The statistic is 47% living and breathing people paying no federal income tax. Many more still pay the 15% for medicare / social security, the gas tax and others. And often paying state income, sales, and real estate taxes. Others are too young or too old (retired).
The statistic has a narrow meaning but has been taken and padded to sound like half the country is mooching.
Glad to hear Washington is doing so well, but it's not the norm. California doesn't have as many hydroelectric facilities, so more electricity comes from burning stuff.
Food for thought: If you add demand for charging 10,000 electric cars, which of those categories would be used to accommodate the demand? I'd presume that of the top 5, the only ones that aren't maxed out already are coal and natural gas. Maybe over time there would be more renewable energy generation and as someone else mentioned, economies of scale (one plant serving many cars rather than one plant per car). But the night you bring it home, does that coal plant burn just a little hotter?
On top of this, why were people drinking so much coffee? Because they were working long days? Staying up late? Other activities that can lead to eye strain?
Sorry but this sounds like correlation rather than causation.
What if someone asks pedantic questions such as "You are uphill from a bunch of zombies, need to get past them but don't have gasoline in the tank to make Molotov cocktails... what now?"
"Get only positive results or never get tenure" is a policy that dooms us to this exact course. Publishing is no longer a consequence of having a brilliant idea, but rather a means to an ends(keeping your job). The academic community needs to find another metric for researcher quality other than papers published. It's costing everyone the truth.
I think the issue is not that they need a new metric for researcher quality but to realize that not every professor needs to be an active researcher their whole career.
Except in maybe Europe in WW2, there were probably very few cases where 50 or 100 prop planes picked a fight with 2 or 4 jet fighters. The Me262 wasn't invincible in dog-fighting either; Chuck Yagger didn't know what it was when he shot it down.
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I think you can take a look at just the mortgage interest deduction. It could be argued whether this is a good thing or not (the intent being that home ownership is a good thing). Regardless, removing it would add thousands of dollars to families tax burden which would cause many to have to sell their homes (causing another mortgage crisis). Offsetting the thousands of dollars in lost deductions with a tax reduction would mean the non-home owners would get a big tax cut from what they previously paid which quickly reduces revenue and makes balancing the budget harder.
We've seen what happens when the housing market gets screwed with. Sadly I think this becomes one of the so-called sacred cows.
No death for the guilty will erase the pain of those who lost their love ones or the victims.
Would the pro-death-penalty group leader have preferred a torturous method? Or one that matches the way the victims died? There is a logic to it, but it would not be palatable for a civilized society (aside from perhaps ancient Rome).
While you make good points, we must keep in mind what sorts of costs could be introduced by a heavy-weight process.
A good example is from the criminal system: life sentence vs death penalty. Death penalty cases are more expensive than usual cases due to the burden of proof, multiple rounds of appeals, etc that are intended to make 100% sure an innocent man isn't executed (which sadly still happens occasionally). Would something similar get introduced here? Tests to make sure the person is competent, not coerced, maybe have to spend a week off of pain killers to ensure the drugs aren't doing the talking, etc. Paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork. We wouldn't want a bad doctor to cover up their mistake by saying "it was assisted suicide".
My worry is what did the web cam capture between shots when he stood to get a shirt.
Clouds?
I think a bigger problem is that the surface area of an 'airliner' can never provide enough energy to keep it in the air even with 100% conversion efficiency at noon.
Yep. approx 30 kWh per gallon of fuel, a 747 is burning approx 1 gal/second, so 100K kW (3600x30) needed. Solar gives us approx 1kW / square meter, so we need about 100K square meters of solar panels on our 747. Our 747 has approx 1000 sq m top surface, so solar would provide 1% of the power needed even in optimal conditions.
What if we didn't think about the 747 use-case but focused on the commuter flights. As noted higher up, there are limitations with night flying, clouds, and East-bound travel is restricted. But there sure are a lot of flights that simply go up and down the East or West coast that only fly for 30 minutes to an hour. Or, could a battery last for 30 minutes of flight for a commuter plane?
/. Must have been hacked with this worthless article from a programmer that is still deciding between emacs and Eclipse.
Yo Willie, you can write shit code in any language, any IDE when you are a crappy programmer. IDEs help you better debug, code complete and refactor you crappy code.
IDEs are supposed to make software engineers more effective and efficient. Yes they help get past certain rough spots in languages, but should I go to a simpler IDE just because it makes me more manly (as TFS almost suggests)? Give me whatever tool makes me more efficient and effective at my job. If it's a heavy-weight, 2G of memory tool that kicks ass and isn't slow then so be it.
I'm sure that hydroelectric plants can handle the extra water pressure from a few feet extra flow. The pressure that reaches the impeller is probably very stable.
It's standard treatment in Sweden. If the crime is non-trivial, the attorney almost always requests solitary confinement. The reason is to prevent the accused from interfering with the criminal investigation, but I think at least partly it's done in order to break the accused, helping the interrogations.
As is the case with most slashdotters, he should be immune to their tricks. Better than being surrounded by frat boys and jocks (aka general population).
The article summary is deliberately inflammatory. It's not "stealing" - it's exactly the sort of sharing which I assume a "pirate" would support. The original DivX site hasn't lost the use of these subtitles. Indeed, it's been given free advertising. The best thing it could do is issue a press release congratulating Netflix for acting in the spirit of cooperation and free dissemination. Everyone wins.
Except that they demand money. Ripping of some ip and sharing it for free is different from ripping it of and selling it for profit.
But in this case, it's ripping off IP that was part of ripping off IP and the second rip-off-er licensed the content that was originally ripped off. The pirates can't copyright what it takes to pirate the work (even American fair-use or derivative work laws don't cover straight-out copying). Pirating lives in a grey space (technically illegal but dubious in market impact depending on the case-by-case basis) and I don't think they have a peg-leg to stand on in this circumstance.
But it still makes Netflix look stupid, especially when they leave in the reference to the pirate group.
I think it's simpler than that.
Statistically speaking, people who live in big cities are more against TSA than people who live in smaller cities in fly-over states (who are pro-TSA because it protects their barn from getting rammed by a 737). They are simply moving their equipment to serve the "customers" who are demanding it.
I hope this results in the small-town and rural population becoming anti-TSA.
Some of these "illegal practices" are simply asking for your zip code when using your credit card at the gas pump because that was supposedly identifying information (like the credit card part wasn't). Most businesses swat these types of lawsuits like flies (i.e. settle for cheap) because there is no plaintiff and the lawyer just wants his pay day.
The real illegal practices that you hope to have fixed by a class action lawsuit (be it making cigarettes more addictive, illegal dumping or disabling Face Time over LTE) would be fought, delayed, and maneuvered around for so long that it's long, hard, and rare that the practices get changed.
I read that one as GILF. That isn't something I'd wish to see in ultra HD.
Four years ago the G meant Governor.
I mean, if you listen to the current political babblers on TV here in the US, you'd get the impression that they're downright flabbergasted that Romney isn't polling in the single digits or low teens. (I have one reason why... Obama killed an American Citizen with a drone.... pissing on the right of due process and innocence until proven guilty all in the name of "war on Terrah!")
Two thoughts. First, it does depend on the station. CNN's panels have a mix of Republicans and Democrats. MSNBC and FOX are apologetically biased (FOX going as far as to demonize the rest of the media). Second, why isn't this a campaign topic? Why hasn't it been in a debate or in a Romney speech? The only reason I can think of is that he doesn't disagree with it and would do more or less the same (probably less since the whole wouldn't-have-killed-Bin-Laden thing).
I'm not being dismissive; I really wish national security (other than the Libya thing, but DHS and TSA - yes we have talked Iran) were part of the conversation because those are Obama's weakest spots. The only reason why I can think they aren't is because Romney doesn't disagree and wouldn't do anything differently.
My kid sucks at chemistry and, like all pussy-ass parents today, I don't have the heart to tell him that he's not incredible at everything (and don't want to risk him finding out by taking a class where he doesn't get an automatic "A").
You know that next week he'll be complaining about the lack of public speaking and music classes in public schools.
Proof-of-concept phase maybe? Presumably that would be changed for the first consumer version.
The statistic is 47% living and breathing people paying no federal income tax. Many more still pay the 15% for medicare / social security, the gas tax and others. And often paying state income, sales, and real estate taxes. Others are too young or too old (retired).
The statistic has a narrow meaning but has been taken and padded to sound like half the country is mooching.
Jobs was an Edison, not a Tesla. As with Edison, the truth will catch up to the legend.
Beyond the marketing, Jobs never claimed to be a Tesla and always was labeled an Edison (but not evil enough to steal cats and electrocute them).
Geeks hate this, but we need non-evil Edisons for our ideas to make it to market.
I'm pretty certain this is why gas prices went up in CA. Nothing like a refinery fire to reduce output to CA and our silly gas laws make it impossible to import from other states.
When this first happened I watched and noticed no difference in prices. I guess it finally caught up with us.
Glad to hear Washington is doing so well, but it's not the norm. California doesn't have as many hydroelectric facilities, so more electricity comes from burning stuff.
Food for thought: If you add demand for charging 10,000 electric cars, which of those categories would be used to accommodate the demand? I'd presume that of the top 5, the only ones that aren't maxed out already are coal and natural gas. Maybe over time there would be more renewable energy generation and as someone else mentioned, economies of scale (one plant serving many cars rather than one plant per car). But the night you bring it home, does that coal plant burn just a little hotter?
The attackers are promising their recruits a cut of the profits, and are requiring an initial investment in hardware and training
as any confidence man could tell you, the best marks are those that think they are in on the scam...
I second that thought. This sounds less like a serious recruitment and more like one of those "makes $5000 a month working from home" things.
At that point, there aren't any jobs involved in the manufacture of that device, so why do we care where it's manufactured?
Someone will need to maintain and retool the robots. A fair portion of today's heavy manufacturing jobs go to the fixers.
On top of this, why were people drinking so much coffee? Because they were working long days? Staying up late? Other activities that can lead to eye strain?
Sorry but this sounds like correlation rather than causation.
What if someone asks pedantic questions such as "You are uphill from a bunch of zombies, need to get past them but don't have gasoline in the tank to make Molotov cocktails... what now?"
"Get only positive results or never get tenure" is a policy that dooms us to this exact course. Publishing is no longer a consequence of having a brilliant idea, but rather a means to an ends(keeping your job). The academic community needs to find another metric for researcher quality other than papers published. It's costing everyone the truth.
I think the issue is not that they need a new metric for researcher quality but to realize that not every professor needs to be an active researcher their whole career.
Except in maybe Europe in WW2, there were probably very few cases where 50 or 100 prop planes picked a fight with 2 or 4 jet fighters. The Me262 wasn't invincible in dog-fighting either; Chuck Yagger didn't know what it was when he shot it down.