You are not paying 30% federal income tax. No body gets an effective tax rate of 30% federal tax. The AMT is 27%. Effective tax rate for people making up to 200K is around 16%. At 300K to 500K effective tax rate is 26%. Looks like you have never filed tax returns with those levels of income ever and you are making wild guesses. You are probably benefiting far larger from the government than what you are paying as taxes.
First, I am not a linguist, and I got a few terminologies by reading "popular" science books (steven pinker, jared diamond, nicholas wade, etc). Sorry if I have misused and misunderstood some of the terminologies.
Are linguists today taking advantage of the all these mutation trees, detected patterns of migration, and datable events in them, cross correlations between them to determine whether are not something is a true cognate or a coincidence? Just asking, because that is the general thrust for people pushing long and deep language families.
You are wrong. The taxing power of the government is really very very broad. In fact the Obamacare law was uphled by Justice Roberts precisely because the government can pretty much tax anything and compel people to pay for anything for any reason. In fact the powers of the government is really really broad. Despite all that talk about liberty and limited powers of the government and the freedom of the citizens etc, the government can compel you you stop doing your business, force you to be part of military, force you to risk you losing life and limb, and refuse to pay for all the losses you suffered because you were forced to abandon your farm or business during active service. Draft is constitutional, tax is constitutional.
You seem to have a very romanticized reading of the constitution, and are ignoring all the precedents set in actual implementation. I think you are native born citizen of America, who got citizenship without doing any hard work. Not like me, I am an immigrant and I studied the constitution in theory and in practice, and I chose America voluntarily.
You shop where you find it convenient. Traditional or the net. But the tax is due either way. Eithter you allow the retailer to collect the sales tax and remit it or you track it cleanly and file the taxes yourself. If you are going to take the route, "Come and collect the taxes if you can". Then you are simply a tax dodger and a tax cheat. All this protestations about traditional marketers are thin veneer for the show. Basically you want to dodge the tax.
Federal government clearly has the authority to regulate interstate commerce.
BTW, constitutionally, the Government can tax anything for any reason. The power of taxation is absolute. There are no constitutional questions here.
It is funny this all powerful internet was created by the government investment and R&D and support. The companies that are the beneficiaries of these long term investment in infrastructure and R&D bitch and moan when they are asked to pay a small part of their income to fund the next generation of such R&D and infrastructure. These internet companies are simply selfish unpatriotic tax cheats.
The powerful internet was created by the government investment and R&D support. But the beneficiaries kick, scream, bitch and moan when they are asked to shoulder their fair share of the burden of paying for the governement.
This is not a new tax. Al the states have laws that state that the citizens must declare their out of state purchases and pay taxes voluntarily. Most state income tax forms have lines asking for this information.
But, everyone knows, it is very difficult to enforce and people will lie or "mis remember" about their out-of-state purchases. People who denounce this new move as onerous, bad, etc are tax cheats to dodge the tax or benefit by aiding and abetting tax dodging.
I see no reason why the internet businesses, whose existence came in because of long investments by the government in R&D and infrastructure, now denounce the government. If they get this tax law watered down, I wish the brick and mortor businesses push for a new tax on all internet companies to out of state sales, be levied a new federal tax to recoup the investment the federal and state governments (dont forget the state universities R&D contributions). They will be given a rebate equal to the amount of sales tax they have collected on behalf of state governments, all other federal sales should be charged a flat 6% federal tax. The Federal government might redistribute the money based on population or sales volume per state.
The summary is needlessly exaggerating. The paper is not something radically new or anything. It is continuing progress on well established science of linguistics.
What is happening now, is they are finding cross correlations to accurately date certain mutations. Most people following science, know there is this mutation tree built on Y chromosomes, and mitochondrial DNA have postulated a mitochondrial "Eve" and Y-Chromosome "Adam". There are also the mutation tree on body lice, head lice and other parasites on human body. They too have mutations and they can be correlated with human migrations and contact because many of these parasites can not live without human contact and they spread only on close contact. Dogs are our symbiotic species, and their DNA and mutations could be tracked. Lactose tolerance among us, which started just 6000 years ago, genetics of domesticated plants and animals etc are all providing huge mutation trees and they have events that could be used to do accurate dating.
This is pushing the inferences in linguistics to one more boundary. Earlier linguists by themselves could take these mutation trees in languages to some 5000 years or 8000 years. Beyond that the noise was too much. Now with independent information about which people migrated where and when, they are able to push it beyond 8000 years to 16000 years. Just plain steady progress. This jump happens to cross the ice-age boundary. So there is some opportunity to make a sexier head line involving ice age. That is all.
It is interesting, it is exciting, but hardly a fundamental new break through.
They know how many claims you have filed before. They can tell how accident prone you are by correlating your zip code, census tract and your years of education and credit score. Never under estimate the power of actuarial statistics.
Not all people have an irrational love for their cars. Not even most people have such an irrational love for their cars. Even the people who love their cars hate the car companies, and oil companies in general. The reason why segways have not displaced cars as the preferred mode of urban transporation is, that they are impractical.
Limited charge, exposed to the elements, limited speed and range. So other than places like warehouses, parking lot attendants, sight seeing tours, there is no real market for it. Even sprawling amusement parks which use Segways in their parking lots, do not rent them to the general public in their parks. Even farmers and ranchers who have to cover long distances prefer ATVs and motorcycles to segways.
Segway is a very innovative concept relying on the physics of gyroscopes to auto stabilize an unstable platform. The price of electronics and sensors have come down enough to make this possible. Great. But it is not all innovations have practical applications. There is a highly developed, functional, excellent stabilizing mechanism for fundamentally unstable vehicles. The human brain. So segway won't even compete with motorcycles as sensible transport solution.
I had a positive experience with google play store. I am a late adopter and got around to having data plan only recently. Bought a book in playstore. It worked fine in the google nexus 4 phone. But it was not displaying it correctly in my chromebook. I reported the issue, never expected to hear anything back. It was just a 10$ book, and they are multi billion dollar company, and million users might have reported it. So I was pleasantly surprised to get an email from tech support and we exchanged about six or seven emails in 20 minutes. (Turned out to be a corrupted cache). Wondering if nook tech support would be that good. Amazon kindle had a battery issue and they replaced it for free. Though the kindle e-ink display is phenomenal, I am sorely disappointed at the quality of the graphs, plots, charts, tables and maps in the books. They are abysmal. Google play version zooms and expands well. But still paper book beats them all in terms of user experience.
But the magazines in play store looks expensive. They seem to be asking for the rack rate and it is far cheaper to get the ink-smeared-dead-tree version than the cyber version. What gives? May be I am not looking at the right locations.
Looks like Facebook gives special codes to three to five designated people. Then if you forget your facebook password, you contact them, may be outside facebook and through some kind of channel via face book and get the codes. If you are able to collect three such codes, facebook restores your password. This is not any worse than asking for the nickname of your younger brother or the name of your pet or the mother's maiden name. In fact facebook has thoroughly undermined these stupid security questions.
For some reason the banks and credit card companies are very friendly on phone. They seem to trust the caller id and an actual human being on the phone.
Always test it as it is being used by the users. Not the way it is designed to be used by the designers. It does not matter what the designer thinks how it should be used. Testing it according to the design manual is like debugging software by stepping through the comments instead of looking at code.
They knew at some point helium will be gone and the telescope will become useless. It ran for four years more or less. Not as bad as the summary made it sound like.
They are in deep space, so they have an infinite sink at nearly zero deg kelvin. It should be possible to design a closed circuit cooling system that just uses energy from solar panels to pump the refrigerant. But in space applications the weight of such a system of compressors, radiators and pumps might prove to be prohibitive.
Still feel sad such a fine piece of machinery is rotting away. Well, may be a better design next time.
I have seen them, done them, know them all. Sometimes, what I find blows these whippersnappers away.
I remember the young ones say, "make a list or make vector, it is cheap, we do it all the time" when I finally decided to give up the ghost on my own klib (k for Knuth) for containers and switch to STL. Well, they were talking to the guy who obsesses over the number of square roots it takes to find the area of a triangle. Well, I wrote my benchmark code and came back with, 1 addition = 1 unit, mult 3 units, sqrt/exp 7 units, sine/cosine/log 14 units, atan,acos,asin, 30 units, and... std::list.pushback() 180 units, std::vector.insert() 180 units (amortized). Abandoned my klib and am using STL now, but I know how expensive these are, and often I recalculate data instead of hashing them or saving them in a map.
There was this well trained army veteren prosecutor, well trained too, had many guns at home and the assassin rang the doorbell and shot his wife. And chased him down and killed him before he could get to his gun. But nah, that is not the issue. This fingerprint gizmo is going to be unreliable, have a delay of a few milli seconds, so this us unacceptable. The gun wingnuts live in a fantasy world where the millisecond is going to make all the difference in their world. But in real life, it is going to be some toddler how finds the unsecured loaded hair trigger gun and shoot himself or someone nearby in the real world.
... just peer down the barrel, squinting with one eye, and press then joggle the trigger.
But it is not going to be popular. The thief will simply take the gun from you, and know the cheat code trig-trig-up-down-up-down-A-B-A-B and presto, all the levels would be unlocked.
Yes, there are people who would rather steal an 8$ game instead of buying it. But you know what, they are not going to buy your game anyway. Let us say there is perfect DRM and it works flawlessly and genuine users are not hindered and these hackers are stopped cold. Then what? Still they won't buy your game. Or at least 90% of them would find some other game or some other thing to do.
Just consider a fraction of them your future customers, if they like your game, and if your name sticks to their mind at some point in the future they will buy your next game. Rest of them, just plain free loaders, if they talk about their game you might get some publicity. You have to stop thinking those 93% of them would have bought the game if it was not possible to get the cracked version
... only outlaws will have ammonium nitrates. The second amendment right to bear arms, includes the ability to make such arms, to prevent the tyrannical government from preventing the manufacture and sale of such weapons. And making my own ammunition, improvised explosives to keep these damned gimmint agents and tax collectors off private property is what keeping America safe. The only thing that will stop a bad guy with ammonia is a good guy with ammonia. Explosives don't kill people, people kill people. We need to have a national registry of mentally ill people, but definitely not a registry of people buying arms or ingredients for ammunition.
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You are not paying 30% federal income tax. No body gets an effective tax rate of 30% federal tax. The AMT is 27%. Effective tax rate for people making up to 200K is around 16%. At 300K to 500K effective tax rate is 26%. Looks like you have never filed tax returns with those levels of income ever and you are making wild guesses. You are probably benefiting far larger from the government than what you are paying as taxes.
Are linguists today taking advantage of the all these mutation trees, detected patterns of migration, and datable events in them, cross correlations between them to determine whether are not something is a true cognate or a coincidence? Just asking, because that is the general thrust for people pushing long and deep language families.
You seem to have a very romanticized reading of the constitution, and are ignoring all the precedents set in actual implementation. I think you are native born citizen of America, who got citizenship without doing any hard work. Not like me, I am an immigrant and I studied the constitution in theory and in practice, and I chose America voluntarily.
The use tax is constitutional. Pay it.
You shop where you find it convenient. Traditional or the net. But the tax is due either way. Eithter you allow the retailer to collect the sales tax and remit it or you track it cleanly and file the taxes yourself. If you are going to take the route, "Come and collect the taxes if you can". Then you are simply a tax dodger and a tax cheat. All this protestations about traditional marketers are thin veneer for the show. Basically you want to dodge the tax.
BTW, constitutionally, the Government can tax anything for any reason. The power of taxation is absolute. There are no constitutional questions here.
It is funny this all powerful internet was created by the government investment and R&D and support. The companies that are the beneficiaries of these long term investment in infrastructure and R&D bitch and moan when they are asked to pay a small part of their income to fund the next generation of such R&D and infrastructure. These internet companies are simply selfish unpatriotic tax cheats.
Well, Happy to seem Karl Marx being able to access the internet from the "beyond".
The powerful internet was created by the government investment and R&D support. But the beneficiaries kick, scream, bitch and moan when they are asked to shoulder their fair share of the burden of paying for the governement.
But, everyone knows, it is very difficult to enforce and people will lie or "mis remember" about their out-of-state purchases. People who denounce this new move as onerous, bad, etc are tax cheats to dodge the tax or benefit by aiding and abetting tax dodging.
I see no reason why the internet businesses, whose existence came in because of long investments by the government in R&D and infrastructure, now denounce the government. If they get this tax law watered down, I wish the brick and mortor businesses push for a new tax on all internet companies to out of state sales, be levied a new federal tax to recoup the investment the federal and state governments (dont forget the state universities R&D contributions). They will be given a rebate equal to the amount of sales tax they have collected on behalf of state governments, all other federal sales should be charged a flat 6% federal tax. The Federal government might redistribute the money based on population or sales volume per state.
If you outlaw flying cars, only outlaws will have flying cars.
What is happening now, is they are finding cross correlations to accurately date certain mutations. Most people following science, know there is this mutation tree built on Y chromosomes, and mitochondrial DNA have postulated a mitochondrial "Eve" and Y-Chromosome "Adam". There are also the mutation tree on body lice, head lice and other parasites on human body. They too have mutations and they can be correlated with human migrations and contact because many of these parasites can not live without human contact and they spread only on close contact. Dogs are our symbiotic species, and their DNA and mutations could be tracked. Lactose tolerance among us, which started just 6000 years ago, genetics of domesticated plants and animals etc are all providing huge mutation trees and they have events that could be used to do accurate dating.
This is pushing the inferences in linguistics to one more boundary. Earlier linguists by themselves could take these mutation trees in languages to some 5000 years or 8000 years. Beyond that the noise was too much. Now with independent information about which people migrated where and when, they are able to push it beyond 8000 years to 16000 years. Just plain steady progress. This jump happens to cross the ice-age boundary. So there is some opportunity to make a sexier head line involving ice age. That is all.
It is interesting, it is exciting, but hardly a fundamental new break through.
They know how many claims you have filed before. They can tell how accident prone you are by correlating your zip code, census tract and your years of education and credit score. Never under estimate the power of actuarial statistics.
Limited charge, exposed to the elements, limited speed and range. So other than places like warehouses, parking lot attendants, sight seeing tours, there is no real market for it. Even sprawling amusement parks which use Segways in their parking lots, do not rent them to the general public in their parks. Even farmers and ranchers who have to cover long distances prefer ATVs and motorcycles to segways.
Segway is a very innovative concept relying on the physics of gyroscopes to auto stabilize an unstable platform. The price of electronics and sensors have come down enough to make this possible. Great. But it is not all innovations have practical applications. There is a highly developed, functional, excellent stabilizing mechanism for fundamentally unstable vehicles. The human brain. So segway won't even compete with motorcycles as sensible transport solution.
But the magazines in play store looks expensive. They seem to be asking for the rack rate and it is far cheaper to get the ink-smeared-dead-tree version than the cyber version. What gives? May be I am not looking at the right locations.
For some reason the banks and credit card companies are very friendly on phone. They seem to trust the caller id and an actual human being on the phone.
Do you have a wife?
Dumb question to ask a /.er. If he had one, he ain't a /.er.
Always test it as it is being used by the users. Not the way it is designed to be used by the designers. It does not matter what the designer thinks how it should be used. Testing it according to the design manual is like debugging software by stepping through the comments instead of looking at code.
Thanks, I did not realize things are different in space. So how would one design an active cooling system to dissipate heat in space?
Looks like the reliability concerns were the reasons why they did not use an active cooling system, not weight.
They are in deep space, so they have an infinite sink at nearly zero deg kelvin. It should be possible to design a closed circuit cooling system that just uses energy from solar panels to pump the refrigerant. But in space applications the weight of such a system of compressors, radiators and pumps might prove to be prohibitive. Still feel sad such a fine piece of machinery is rotting away. Well, may be a better design next time.
I remember the young ones say, "make a list or make vector, it is cheap, we do it all the time" when I finally decided to give up the ghost on my own klib (k for Knuth) for containers and switch to STL. Well, they were talking to the guy who obsesses over the number of square roots it takes to find the area of a triangle. Well, I wrote my benchmark code and came back with, 1 addition = 1 unit, mult 3 units, sqrt/exp 7 units, sine/cosine/log 14 units, atan,acos,asin, 30 units, and ... std::list.pushback() 180 units, std::vector.insert() 180 units (amortized). Abandoned my klib and am using STL now, but I know how expensive these are, and often I recalculate data instead of hashing them or saving them in a map.
There was this well trained army veteren prosecutor, well trained too, had many guns at home and the assassin rang the doorbell and shot his wife. And chased him down and killed him before he could get to his gun. But nah, that is not the issue. This fingerprint gizmo is going to be unreliable, have a delay of a few milli seconds, so this us unacceptable. The gun wingnuts live in a fantasy world where the millisecond is going to make all the difference in their world. But in real life, it is going to be some toddler how finds the unsecured loaded hair trigger gun and shoot himself or someone nearby in the real world.
But it is not going to be popular. The thief will simply take the gun from you, and know the cheat code trig-trig-up-down-up-down-A-B-A-B and presto, all the levels would be unlocked.
Just consider a fraction of them your future customers, if they like your game, and if your name sticks to their mind at some point in the future they will buy your next game. Rest of them, just plain free loaders, if they talk about their game you might get some publicity. You have to stop thinking those 93% of them would have bought the game if it was not possible to get the cracked version
... only outlaws will have ammonium nitrates. The second amendment right to bear arms, includes the ability to make such arms, to prevent the tyrannical government from preventing the manufacture and sale of such weapons. And making my own ammunition, improvised explosives to keep these damned gimmint agents and tax collectors off private property is what keeping America safe. The only thing that will stop a bad guy with ammonia is a good guy with ammonia. Explosives don't kill people, people kill people. We need to have a national registry of mentally ill people, but definitely not a registry of people buying arms or ingredients for ammunition.