I was making the assumption that property taxes also have an effect on the cost of renting a residence. Property taxes are an operational cost to any business. Though, yes it still probably hurts the lower classes more than the middle++.
Have you seen how stupid NJ's state government is? They raised the sales tax from 6 to 7 percent. Now, tax hikes are tax hikes, and they happen, but here comes the punchline. Our governor refused to pass the state budget without it. The legislatures refused to pass the budget with it. Now, a sensible compromise might be to raise it to 6.5 but instead, they chose to raise it to 7 percent, the catch here is that.5 of that will go to relieving property taxes. You read that right, they raised the sales tax to help lower the property taxes, taxes that essentially effect the same groups of peoples! The essential useful property tax for the state is 6.5%. Oh and if that wasn't crazy and stupid enough, property taxes are pretty much municipal, so the state is going to spend millions of dollars just to figure out how in the world they are going to accomplish the goal of that.5% in sales tax.
I'm aware of youtube's resolution, bit rate and frame rates. Actually, that is my DSL at home. My internet at school is a dual OC3 flaming ball of mostly unlimited bandwidth, so I am certainly aware of what it is like under faster speeds.
768K seems to be a nice low speed broadband. Large downloads are still doable, and youtube videos just take a few more seconds to buffer than on a faster connection. Podcasts are downloaded automatically in the background, so there is little reason for those to have to be super fast. This is just to serve as an example of working broadband internet under 2mb.
Considering this company is capitalizing on the old Real Book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book an illegal book (songs in there were unlicensed) used by jazz musicians for decades, I am curious as to where they intend to go with this. For a perspective on a similar experience in the past, back in the day jazz musicians could only find the standard songs in the lead sheet format (Chord chart and melody line) through illegal means, the most prevalent one being the Real Book. They were difficult to find though and were only available through word of mouth (though the internet helped a little). Recently however Hal Leonard has published "New Editions" of the three main volumes of the Real Books which I have found to be quite good, but unfortunately missing many of the standards that the original Real Books had. The biggest advantage these new Real Books have is that they are extremely easy to find. One of the biggest differences here however, is the Real Books were completely unlicensed and illegal, there was no consent by the authors of the songs. Though many of them probably owned the illegal books themselves and may have benefited by the fact their songs were now standards.
It seems that with this online database however, with the intent to hold only licensed songs and an easier to find product, they stand on better grounds than the Real Books of old. It may be a battle of who can provide a better service, and if Musicnotes and MXTabs can keep persuading artists to release their tabulature freely. With the record store going away, I don't know how long the printed music store will be able to hold out against the internet.
School district police investigated the report and questioned the student at school and then visited his home. The student's parents gave police permission to search the 12th-grader's room and computer. Simpson said police determined no criminal charges were warranted but that disciplinary action was.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro /4766843.html
Well, that was a dumb move...
Its very likely many of those who took the survey and answered in what seems the ignorant maner didn't read or completely comprehend the question as anything beyond "do you believe in evolution or not." I know several intelegent Christian people (this hopefully includes myself) who would have done the same especially if this were an online survey or some other quick format. How many slashdot readers don't go on to read the actual article?
Think about it. You can mow your lawn. Then you can throw the grass into your lawnmower to power it for the next time and get you to and from work for a few days. (Obviously it probably wouldn't be that simple).
I don't understand the fear of neuclear power (or anything neuclear, radio active, radiation producing, or some other word). There are simple risks and benefits to such a solution. Most Americans have a volitile explosive pumped into thier home (natural gas) and think nothing of it. Yet, there are certainly risks to having that come into your home, explosion being the one of the least of those compared to carbon monoxide. The same comes with driving a car. I don't understand why neuclear power is so fear inducing, when there are so many other risks that we take, and think completely lightly of them.
GoDaddy's forwarding wasn't working for my site this morning, but simply going to my account and reviewing the settings (I changed nothing) seemed to clear that up. It could be coincidence, but who knows.
I remember taking a survey on Square's website about a game where would team up with various disney and final fantasy characters. You would then go throughout various worlds doing something with hearts and have a special key sword. Of course my first instinct was to the extreme negative, so That is what I rated/said in the various questions. I get a chance to play Kingdom Hearts, who's premise was oddly familiar and smack my head in disbelief that such a game was actually good.
As to your complaints about illegal drugs and how they don't hurt anyone else, If you are too short sited to see that harming yourself is harming others, then we have nothing else to say. I do understand that doesn't completely apply to marijuana...
My high-school's superintendent was a "Doctor of Child Psychology" yet his decisions never actually reflected an understanding of a child/adolescent's mind. I can recall several times where he has lied about the motives of a move in school policy to the student body, thinking we weren't smart enough to see through it. These kids will be able to see though this school's stupidity; if not now then very soon. I always find it funny when the same people who praise a classes brains go and do something assuming the ignorance and inability to think of that same class.
This kind of thing also is adding to our declining education in America. More and more students are treated as cattle sent to pasture between different fields (classrooms). The students can no longer feel any ownership to the school as there once was and if you can't feel connected to the school you really aren't going to care if your assistant principal wags his finger at you.
So, this thing will come out less than after receiving my shiny new Computer Science diploma. Suddenly much of what I know will become useless, thanks Intel.
I am aware of several similar methods. One involves the use of a virtual sound card.
You would be suprised how close a good analog rerecording can be. Its almost indistinguishable.
It only takes 1 realy angry 12 year old to make a copy of a piece of media (un DRMed through various means including cracking and the analog hole) available freely on the internet for it to be available to anyone everyone. Why would you alienate your consumers with a technology that doesn't fix the problem but creates more?
I thought there was supposed to be a cooling trend in Europe due to the disruption of the Atlantic currnets. I have heard such a disruption could be caused or worsened by global warming. So it seems that any change in Eruope's climate could be atrubuted to global warming.
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I was making the assumption that property taxes also have an effect on the cost of renting a residence. Property taxes are an operational cost to any business. Though, yes it still probably hurts the lower classes more than the middle++.
Have you seen how stupid NJ's state government is? They raised the sales tax from 6 to 7 percent. Now, tax hikes are tax hikes, and they happen, but here comes the punchline. Our governor refused to pass the state budget without it. The legislatures refused to pass the budget with it. Now, a sensible compromise might be to raise it to 6.5 but instead, they chose to raise it to 7 percent, the catch here is that .5 of that will go to relieving property taxes. You read that right, they raised the sales tax to help lower the property taxes, taxes that essentially effect the same groups of peoples! The essential useful property tax for the state is 6.5%. Oh and if that wasn't crazy and stupid enough, property taxes are pretty much municipal, so the state is going to spend millions of dollars just to figure out how in the world they are going to accomplish the goal of that .5% in sales tax.
I'm aware of youtube's resolution, bit rate and frame rates. Actually, that is my DSL at home. My internet at school is a dual OC3 flaming ball of mostly unlimited bandwidth, so I am certainly aware of what it is like under faster speeds.
768K seems to be a nice low speed broadband. Large downloads are still doable, and youtube videos just take a few more seconds to buffer than on a faster connection. Podcasts are downloaded automatically in the background, so there is little reason for those to have to be super fast. This is just to serve as an example of working broadband internet under 2mb.
http://www.afactor.net/kitchen/coffee/kaffeeKantat e.html
http://www.epinions.com/pr-Hamilton_Beach_40729 Seems to do the trick for me. Combine that with a slightly modified (used tinfoil as a shim to move the burs closer for a finer grind) http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DBM-8-Supreme-Grin d-Automatic/dp/B00018RRRK then get some espresso beans fresh from NJ... http://www.coffeebeandirect.com/ and you have an espresso set up that is equivalent to some that cost thousands. Of course if your machine and grinder are better, then you will get better results, but you can't beat the price for that set up.
Considering this company is capitalizing on the old Real Book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book an illegal book (songs in there were unlicensed) used by jazz musicians for decades, I am curious as to where they intend to go with this. For a perspective on a similar experience in the past, back in the day jazz musicians could only find the standard songs in the lead sheet format (Chord chart and melody line) through illegal means, the most prevalent one being the Real Book. They were difficult to find though and were only available through word of mouth (though the internet helped a little). Recently however Hal Leonard has published "New Editions" of the three main volumes of the Real Books which I have found to be quite good, but unfortunately missing many of the standards that the original Real Books had. The biggest advantage these new Real Books have is that they are extremely easy to find. One of the biggest differences here however, is the Real Books were completely unlicensed and illegal, there was no consent by the authors of the songs. Though many of them probably owned the illegal books themselves and may have benefited by the fact their songs were now standards. It seems that with this online database however, with the intent to hold only licensed songs and an easier to find product, they stand on better grounds than the Real Books of old. It may be a battle of who can provide a better service, and if Musicnotes and MXTabs can keep persuading artists to release their tabulature freely. With the record store going away, I don't know how long the printed music store will be able to hold out against the internet.
School district police investigated the report and questioned the student at school and then visited his home. The student's parents gave police permission to search the 12th-grader's room and computer. Simpson said police determined no criminal charges were warranted but that disciplinary action was. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro /4766843.html
Well, that was a dumb move...
That sounds a lot like my software engineering "class"
If only someone would create a program that could detect that...
Its very likely many of those who took the survey and answered in what seems the ignorant maner didn't read or completely comprehend the question as anything beyond "do you believe in evolution or not." I know several intelegent Christian people (this hopefully includes myself) who would have done the same especially if this were an online survey or some other quick format. How many slashdot readers don't go on to read the actual article?
That is what I first said when I heard the concept for Kingdom Hearts.
Think about it. You can mow your lawn. Then you can throw the grass into your lawnmower to power it for the next time and get you to and from work for a few days. (Obviously it probably wouldn't be that simple).
I don't understand the fear of neuclear power (or anything neuclear, radio active, radiation producing, or some other word). There are simple risks and benefits to such a solution. Most Americans have a volitile explosive pumped into thier home (natural gas) and think nothing of it. Yet, there are certainly risks to having that come into your home, explosion being the one of the least of those compared to carbon monoxide. The same comes with driving a car. I don't understand why neuclear power is so fear inducing, when there are so many other risks that we take, and think completely lightly of them.
GoDaddy's forwarding wasn't working for my site this morning, but simply going to my account and reviewing the settings (I changed nothing) seemed to clear that up. It could be coincidence, but who knows.
I remember taking a survey on Square's website about a game where would team up with various disney and final fantasy characters. You would then go throughout various worlds doing something with hearts and have a special key sword. Of course my first instinct was to the extreme negative, so That is what I rated/said in the various questions. I get a chance to play Kingdom Hearts, who's premise was oddly familiar and smack my head in disbelief that such a game was actually good.
At first I thought this said, "Near-Complete Cure for Death in Two Years."
As to your complaints about illegal drugs and how they don't hurt anyone else, If you are too short sited to see that harming yourself is harming others, then we have nothing else to say. I do understand that doesn't completely apply to marijuana...
My high-school's superintendent was a "Doctor of Child Psychology" yet his decisions never actually reflected an understanding of a child/adolescent's mind. I can recall several times where he has lied about the motives of a move in school policy to the student body, thinking we weren't smart enough to see through it. These kids will be able to see though this school's stupidity; if not now then very soon. I always find it funny when the same people who praise a classes brains go and do something assuming the ignorance and inability to think of that same class. This kind of thing also is adding to our declining education in America. More and more students are treated as cattle sent to pasture between different fields (classrooms). The students can no longer feel any ownership to the school as there once was and if you can't feel connected to the school you really aren't going to care if your assistant principal wags his finger at you.
So, this thing will come out less than after receiving my shiny new Computer Science diploma. Suddenly much of what I know will become useless, thanks Intel.
This will put an end to that "(insert name here), you really know how to turn me on" joke.
I am aware of several similar methods. One involves the use of a virtual sound card. You would be suprised how close a good analog rerecording can be. Its almost indistinguishable.
It only takes 1 realy angry 12 year old to make a copy of a piece of media (un DRMed through various means including cracking and the analog hole) available freely on the internet for it to be available to anyone everyone. Why would you alienate your consumers with a technology that doesn't fix the problem but creates more?
I thought there was supposed to be a cooling trend in Europe due to the disruption of the Atlantic currnets. I have heard such a disruption could be caused or worsened by global warming. So it seems that any change in Eruope's climate could be atrubuted to global warming.
I'm a postal worker and the post office told me there was no such thing as going postal...