Hey wait this guy might be on to something, this lattice reminds me of something.
"It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together."
Yes that sounds similar!
We need to master the lattice and soon we will be able to jump really high, move shit with our minds, and battle each other with laser swords.
Most U.S. stations where I live have 87, 89 and 91 or 92. I have never seen a gas station with 83 or 85 octane, not saying they don't exist, just that I have never seen one in my 20 or so years of gas buying in the U.S.
Units are not exactly the same. Europe and most of the world, I believe, uses the Research octane number or RON. The U.S. uses the average of RON and MON.
If I remember right RON tends to be 8 to 10 points higher than MON or Motor octane number. The RON MON average used in the U.S. would be 4-5 points lower than the RON for the same gasoline.
87 in the U.S. would be around 91 in Europe
91 or 92 premium in the U.S. would be 95-97 in Europe.
You RTFA. They selected the shops with the worst reputations to try this at, of course the bad shops will outnumber the good shops when you seek out the worst shops for your test.
if you sell it for $100 yes, you should pay taxes on $100
I think your argument would only work if the people getting paid were actually spending the gold coins at face value, which would be incredibly stupid.
It is really no different than if the boss pays you in merchandise which you then sell, you can't then claim he never paid you with money so you owe no taxes, well I guess you can claim that but it won't work
I agree retailers provide a service and add value. The statement about retailers was to counter the statement that "buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money, without having made any improvements is just jackassery." Using retailers was a bad comparison.
How about investing in gold. I buy an ounce of gold hold it until the value increases and sell it. I don't think that is wrong. I didn't provide a service or improve the gold in any way. I just waited for it to appreciate in value, nothing wrong with that.
The thing I don't like about the squatters is that they are not "buying" an item to resell, they are paying a nominal fee to register an item that, in essence, is unowned solely to deprive others from the opportunity to use the item, and later try to sell it for a profit.
I guess my main point was that it is not wrong to buy and sell for profit regardless of whether or not you add value to the item, but the squatters are not "buying" items they are in essence obstructing access to what should be an available pool of items so they can sell them.
The only solution I can think of, and it probably has a huge flaw that would make it unworkable, is names are not transferable. I can register an unused name and if I don't want it at the end of the term it will revert to an available status, but I cannot transfer or give it to anyone. Once it reverts to available it is fair game first come first serve. If I were sitting on a name that you wanted I could say pay me and i will not renew, but you would not likely pay much as you may not get the name even if I don't renew it, someone else might jump in and grab it. I think that then there would be little incentive to scoop up an assload of available domain names just to block users from getting them.
The key difference, in my opinion, is you purchased the property from somewhere, you didn't have the ability to claim unused land for a nominal registration fee.
Speculation of any sort should be frowned upon in our society.
I'm all for capitalisim and making a profit, but buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money, without having made any improvements is just jackassery.
Isn't "buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money" exactly what all retailers do everyday? What about investments/401k accounts? Are you not buying things and hoping to sell it to someone else for more?
I personally don't have a problem with speculating on something that has actual value like the land analogy above or investments. The analogy breaks down though, most items have to be made or bought from a person or other entity, there is no longer a pool of unowned land that you can claim with a nearly insignificant registration fee and then try to sell. Real estate agents don't just roam around looking for vacant houses and claim them to sell as their own.
How many of the spacecraft malfunction and don't last the desired lifespan? How many contain 70MW reactors? Usually the result of a failure in a spacecraft is less less severe than a failure in a reactor.
It may be possible to build them in a manner which only requires service every 12 years, but is it wise to leave them unattended for 12 years?
"tech-savvy" folks that can't find hidden files or use linux? They don't seem "so tech-savvy" to me. I just plugged my ipod into my eeepc running ubuntu and dragged music off using the exotic third party program called file browser.
If tech-savvy people can't do this what does that make me, a cyber ninja maybe?
I don't pay much attention to audiophile arguments. It is one thing to have top quality audio at home but to bitch because a portable player you are using on the bus etc. has some loss is just silly. Most "audiophiles" end up throwing money away for useless crap anyway. Google search the virtual dynamics power 3 power cord. This is a $150 cable that promises all kinds of crap. After you check it out look about 2 links down to see the pics of it after a cat tore it open.
I am not trying to be a total ass here. If yoou just prefer another format or don't like the ipod thats fine, your arguments suck though
Wouldn't using Coke to brush your teeth kind of defeat the purpose of brushing your teeth. I mean why even bother doing it. I suppose maybe it was diet coke, but brushing your teeth with Coke just kind of sounds pointless to me.
I will one up them and cite a name. My only car was made in 1968 and gets 40 mpg if I watch my driving. It's a Karmann Ghia.
My last modern car was a '03 Kia Rio with a 5 speed and it got very close to the same mpg as my sister's civic hybrid. I know not 80's or 90's, I am just saying the hybrids are not impressing me so far.
I think You are full of crap.
You ARE right that a company exists to make money for its owners. The best way to do that is not to have all of your employees hate the place and only care about getting the paycheck. Happy employees tend to care about the company and unhappy ones don't.
"That just makes me work hard enough to not get fired" Peter and the Bobs remember that bit. It's kind of true.
"I don't feel personal use of the networks is appropriate at all (yes I know I'm reading Slashdot at 10:30 in the morning, but I get a lot of job related info from this sites news sources, so I consider it a valid use of the network)."
I can understand that you pick up job related stuff here, but your comment is pretty deep into the discussion of a story on personal use of the internet at work. I am not seeing a lot of good professional references here in this discussion. It kind of seems like a saying I once heard, something about houses and glass and stones. I could be off on this, but if personal use is not appropriate at all I don't see how browsing the comments on this story is appropriate.
I am not saying you are wrong, stereo is enough to reproduce a concert experience.
Why does a recording have to be limited to that? Most albums are not really a representation of a concert experience. I have never been to a concert where the performer played a song 60 times and pieced together the perfect parts and played the result, yet that is what many albums are.
I would think one could do some cool stuff by recording and mixing to give the effect of sitting in the middle of the band with sounds coming from all directions, even if it doesn't sound like a concert.
I know not everyone records like that. I am sure I will get a bunch of- (insert my favorite band or artist) records in one take on a concert like stage with microphones in the audience, but most stuff is recorded in a studio over multiple takes and is processed to make an album.
Powered by Vista. I just had an image of a bus stopping every 3 feet "the bus has encountered a magnet cancel or allow"chug chug chug "the bus has.........
I love that book. If I could only have one reference for working on old VWs that would be it. One of the best parts about that book is the illustrations, it was all illustrations instead of photos. I learned more about my car and engine in that book than all of the others combined.
I know off topic, I just can't resist when someone brings up my favorite book about one of my oddball hobbies.
"Pointless and stupid" I was enjoying it until I got to your piece of shit.
"You want a fucking medal for that? A fucking parrot can do that. Stop being so fucking retarded." That is a great demonstrarion of the "social skills" that we have none of.
If a couple MP lines work you up that bad perhaps you should think about not reading/.
I would except for the little fact that I will not have to sit outside in the desert to get internet forever. When I return home to civilization I am pretty sure I will use my MBP again. I really prefer my Mac for most uses, The eee fits really well for carting around the sandbox though.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey wait this guy might be on to something, this lattice reminds me of something.
"It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together."
Yes that sounds similar!
We need to master the lattice and soon we will be able to jump really high, move shit with our minds, and battle each other with laser swords.
Most U.S. stations where I live have 87, 89 and 91 or 92. I have never seen a gas station with 83 or 85 octane, not saying they don't exist, just that I have never seen one in my 20 or so years of gas buying in the U.S.
Units are not exactly the same. Europe and most of the world, I believe, uses the Research octane number or RON. The U.S. uses the average of RON and MON.
If I remember right RON tends to be 8 to 10 points higher than MON or Motor octane number. The RON MON average used in the U.S. would be 4-5 points lower than the RON for the same gasoline.
87 in the U.S. would be around 91 in Europe
91 or 92 premium in the U.S. would be 95-97 in Europe.
Googlesays there is more trial and error in bridge building than you might like to admit.
You RTFA. They selected the shops with the worst reputations to try this at, of course the bad shops will outnumber the good shops when you seek out the worst shops for your test.
if you sell it for $100 yes, you should pay taxes on $100
I think your argument would only work if the people getting paid were actually spending the gold coins at face value, which would be incredibly stupid.
It is really no different than if the boss pays you in merchandise which you then sell, you can't then claim he never paid you with money so you owe no taxes, well I guess you can claim that but it won't work
I agree retailers provide a service and add value. The statement about retailers was to counter the statement that "buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money, without having made any improvements is just jackassery." Using retailers was a bad comparison.
How about investing in gold. I buy an ounce of gold hold it until the value increases and sell it. I don't think that is wrong. I didn't provide a service or improve the gold in any way. I just waited for it to appreciate in value, nothing wrong with that.
The thing I don't like about the squatters is that they are not "buying" an item to resell, they are paying a nominal fee to register an item that, in essence, is unowned solely to deprive others from the opportunity to use the item, and later try to sell it for a profit.
I guess my main point was that it is not wrong to buy and sell for profit regardless of whether or not you add value to the item, but the squatters are not "buying" items they are in essence obstructing access to what should be an available pool of items so they can sell them.
The only solution I can think of, and it probably has a huge flaw that would make it unworkable, is names are not transferable. I can register an unused name and if I don't want it at the end of the term it will revert to an available status, but I cannot transfer or give it to anyone. Once it reverts to available it is fair game first come first serve. If I were sitting on a name that you wanted I could say pay me and i will not renew, but you would not likely pay much as you may not get the name even if I don't renew it, someone else might jump in and grab it. I think that then there would be little incentive to scoop up an assload of available domain names just to block users from getting them.
The key difference, in my opinion, is you purchased the property from somewhere, you didn't have the ability to claim unused land for a nominal registration fee.
Speculation of any sort should be frowned upon in our society. I'm all for capitalisim and making a profit, but buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money, without having made any improvements is just jackassery.
Isn't "buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money" exactly what all retailers do everyday? What about investments/401k accounts? Are you not buying things and hoping to sell it to someone else for more?
I personally don't have a problem with speculating on something that has actual value like the land analogy above or investments. The analogy breaks down though, most items have to be made or bought from a person or other entity, there is no longer a pool of unowned land that you can claim with a nearly insignificant registration fee and then try to sell. Real estate agents don't just roam around looking for vacant houses and claim them to sell as their own.
How many of the spacecraft malfunction and don't last the desired lifespan? How many contain 70MW reactors? Usually the result of a failure in a spacecraft is less less severe than a failure in a reactor.
It may be possible to build them in a manner which only requires service every 12 years, but is it wise to leave them unattended for 12 years?
The cost.
The cost of cd's and postage would climb pretty quickly when trying to do this on a large scale. You could do it to select people though.
"tech-savvy" folks that can't find hidden files or use linux? They don't seem "so tech-savvy" to me. I just plugged my ipod into my eeepc running ubuntu and dragged music off using the exotic third party program called file browser.
If tech-savvy people can't do this what does that make me, a cyber ninja maybe?
I don't pay much attention to audiophile arguments. It is one thing to have top quality audio at home but to bitch because a portable player you are using on the bus etc. has some loss is just silly. Most "audiophiles" end up throwing money away for useless crap anyway. Google search the virtual dynamics power 3 power cord. This is a $150 cable that promises all kinds of crap. After you check it out look about 2 links down to see the pics of it after a cat tore it open.
I am not trying to be a total ass here. If yoou just prefer another format or don't like the ipod thats fine, your arguments suck though
It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays
Wouldn't using Coke to brush your teeth kind of defeat the purpose of brushing your teeth. I mean why even bother doing it. I suppose maybe it was diet coke, but brushing your teeth with Coke just kind of sounds pointless to me.
I will one up them and cite a name. My only car was made in 1968 and gets 40 mpg if I watch my driving. It's a Karmann Ghia.
My last modern car was a '03 Kia Rio with a 5 speed and it got very close to the same mpg as my sister's civic hybrid. I know not 80's or 90's, I am just saying the hybrids are not impressing me so far.
If reducing the viscosity of the fuel causes such drastic results wouldn't it be better or easier to just create less viscous fuel?
No I didn't RTFA
I think You are full of crap.
You ARE right that a company exists to make money for its owners. The best way to do that is not to have all of your employees hate the place and only care about getting the paycheck. Happy employees tend to care about the company and unhappy ones don't.
"That just makes me work hard enough to not get fired" Peter and the Bobs remember that bit. It's kind of true.
"I don't feel personal use of the networks is appropriate at all (yes I know I'm reading Slashdot at 10:30 in the morning, but I get a lot of job related info from this sites news sources, so I consider it a valid use of the network)."
I can understand that you pick up job related stuff here, but your comment is pretty deep into the discussion of a story on personal use of the internet at work. I am not seeing a lot of good professional references here in this discussion. It kind of seems like a saying I once heard, something about houses and glass and stones. I could be off on this, but if personal use is not appropriate at all I don't see how browsing the comments on this story is appropriate.
I am not saying you are wrong, stereo is enough to reproduce a concert experience.
Why does a recording have to be limited to that? Most albums are not really a representation of a concert experience. I have never been to a concert where the performer played a song 60 times and pieced together the perfect parts and played the result, yet that is what many albums are.
I would think one could do some cool stuff by recording and mixing to give the effect of sitting in the middle of the band with sounds coming from all directions, even if it doesn't sound like a concert.
I know not everyone records like that. I am sure I will get a bunch of- (insert my favorite band or artist) records in one take on a concert like stage with microphones in the audience, but most stuff is recorded in a studio over multiple takes and is processed to make an album.
You need dolphin escorts for the dinghy to avoid the sharks causing "dropped packets". Didn't You see that Mythbusters?
Powered by Vista. I just had an image of a bus stopping every 3 feet "the bus has encountered a magnet cancel or allow"chug chug chug "the bus has .........
I love that book. If I could only have one reference for working on old VWs that would be it. One of the best parts about that book is the illustrations, it was all illustrations instead of photos. I learned more about my car and engine in that book than all of the others combined.
I know off topic, I just can't resist when someone brings up my favorite book about one of my oddball hobbies.
I am sorry, disregard my previous post. It should have read "Thanks for your feedback. I'll keep it in mind as I plan future improvements."
Note to self DO NOT FEED TROLLS OR ACs
"Pointless and stupid" I was enjoying it until I got to your piece of shit.
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"You want a fucking medal for that? A fucking parrot can do that. Stop being so fucking retarded." That is a great demonstrarion of the "social skills" that we have none of.
If a couple MP lines work you up that bad perhaps you should think about not reading
I would except for the little fact that I will not have to sit outside in the desert to get internet forever. When I return home to civilization I am pretty sure I will use my MBP again. I really prefer my Mac for most uses, The eee fits really well for carting around the sandbox though.
Thanks for the offer