I'll concede though that there are a few minor services such as licensing that a non-resident worker would make use of but not many. Certainly not enough services to warrant the same level of taxation as a resident.
I think you're forgetting what those taxes are for. It may seem like it but taxes aren't there just to take your money. They're there for the government to provide services (such as roads, police, etc) for those people that make use of them, the residents. Hence, if you aren't a resident of a state and benefit in no way from the services that the government there provides, why should you be paying taxes to that government?
That's good. I used to RP with some vampires in Ultima Online and the crap they came up with was just completely absurd. "Oh, I'm a 1/3 vampire that's pregnant with an elvan's son!!!111oneoneone" I mean.. wtf...
I'm sure there's some LARPs that can be taken seriously but when there's some groups that post videos of their LARP fights on the web, it just makes me embarassed to be a human.
Oh yeah, I'm sure you get all the chicks yelling out, "LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!" while throwing pebbles at people.
Simple logic here, the presense of a "portal" does not automatically add the requirement of having an "account." You can use a portal without the portal having to know who you are.
Try it and see. Go to my.yahoo.com and... *GASP* there it is.. a search bar for you to do searches with.
Believe it or not, some people actually like portals. They don't enjoy going to 12 different places to find the information they need. One quick scan of their portal of choice and they've consumed the majority of the information that they're interested in.
That's a load of crap. You don't know much about how power supplies work. Energy efficiency is a major factor on how much power is consumed by a computer.
A power supply running at 100% capacity will have horrible efficiency while one running at 60% capacity will at least be semi-tolerable.
I'm curious if you actually measured the wattage that your computer is pulling in from the power outlet or if you just did some calculations based on the rated wattage of the power supplies. If the latter, your calculations are completely useless and you're probably using more electricity with the 230 instead of the 400-600.
Yes, it most likely would have been dead but there's this new thing that people are doing called CPR. It helps keep people's body alive long enough to get them to a hospital. I hear that quite a few people have been saved by it. Maybe you've heard of it too?
Besides, how quickly do you answer your front door? The lady had to make the 911 call on her VOIP service, hear the recording, and run outside and across the lawn to the neighbors house while carrying the baby. Then she had to wait for them to answer the door so she could explain the situation and get them to call 911 on their phone. This could have easily taken a few minutes. A few minutes where she could have been doing that new fangled CPR thing.
Ask any paramedic and that few minutes could easily mean the difference between life and death, especially for an infant.
...Firefox will reach the 80.592 million mark. Then we have a long wait until the 94.68715 million mark.
What's with the arbitrary "marks"? 80 million? What about 75 million? That's 3/4 of 100 million which is much nicer than saying 4/5 of 100 million. Better yet, what about 100 million being the next "mark"? That's 7/7 of 100 million.
Frankly, I'm suprised most of these spam operations haven't moved to most Asian, African or some European countries by now. From those locations, they're perfectly free to send as much spam as they desire with no fear of criminal prosecution.
Yes, I'm sure in your mind the world revolves around you but here in the real world, some people actually consider the situation of a person other than themselves from time to time.
You have broadband. Lots of people still don't. For instance, every time Firefox releases a new version, I have to burn it to a cd for a friend of my wife's at work so they don't have to sit around for an hour at home waiting for it to download.
And what does that "Check for Updates" do? That's right, it downloads the full installer to your desktop and executes it which is exactly the same as downloading it manually from mozilla.org except with a couple less mouse clicks. It still has to run the entire installer asking you if you want to re-create icons on the desktop/toolbar/start menu, do a quick/custom install and a few other things.
Probably not. The comment wasn't focused at a gamer though, it was focused at the original poster. If somebody writes in to Slashdot asking where to find a mainboard that doesn't have any on board stuff because they already have a NIC, sound and video cards, they obviously are not a gamer. No gamer I've ever come across would let themselves become that out of touch with the hardware industry.
The cell phone companies most likely don't want to have to deal with real estate taxes were they to buy property to put towers up. There's many municipalities that get the majority of their tax base from property taxes and things like cell phone towers would most likely be taxed highly due to "impact."
After you were finished watching the Discovery show about lightning, did you happen to watch the video of the Challenger where it shows the burning gases venting from the side of the SRB just before the explosion? It's a kinda popular video. It was visible in rebroadcasts of the failed launch played on tv less than an hour after the explosion so you'll have to come up with a black helicopter theory about how "they" planned it all and made the "doctored" video available immediately after the explosion.
He's proud enough to characterize a whole class of people intelligent enough to operate a computer as mouth-breathing idiots.
Apparantly you've never done tech support before. Ever.
*cues scene of librarians dropping out of black helicopters to deny you access to information that the Illuminati have deemed not safe for consumption*
Give me a break. Just because some nutcase found that one historical figure had more books written about them than another historical figure, doesn't mean that the librarians are out to control who gets access to what information.
I've seen some pretty hair-brained theories on Slashdot before but this takes the cake.
From the Product Briefs linked to in the article:
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# Support for MPEG1, 2, 4, and WMV9 scaled up to 1024x768 # MPEG2 main profile/main level (720x480, 10Mbps, 30fps) # MPEG4 advanced simple profile/level 5 (720x480, 8Mbps, 30fps) # WMV9 main profile/medium level (720x480, 2Mbps, 30fps)
Doesn't look too bad to me. This was for the Au1200 btw.
In FFXI, Square recently did take action against a bunch of botters. Granted, it may be a bit "too little, too late" for many but at least they did something.
That's all fine and well if you've got money to burn on unnecessary things but quite a few organizations have a budget that they need to adhere to. Sure, in some horribly sadistic way, I guess I can see some glimmer of a benefit to every machine having the same type of network card but the added time/expense/hassle of cracking open each and every case to put in a network card is just unimaginable to me. You can't possibly deal with many 1U chassis very often. I don't even think most blade servers have the ability to have an extra NIC installed on them.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that what you're talking about doing is complete nonsense IMO.
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Exactly.
I'll concede though that there are a few minor services such as licensing that a non-resident worker would make use of but not many. Certainly not enough services to warrant the same level of taxation as a resident.
I think you're forgetting what those taxes are for. It may seem like it but taxes aren't there just to take your money. They're there for the government to provide services (such as roads, police, etc) for those people that make use of them, the residents. Hence, if you aren't a resident of a state and benefit in no way from the services that the government there provides, why should you be paying taxes to that government?
That's good. I used to RP with some vampires in Ultima Online and the crap they came up with was just completely absurd. "Oh, I'm a 1/3 vampire that's pregnant with an elvan's son!!!111oneoneone" I mean.. wtf...
I'm sure there's some LARPs that can be taken seriously but when there's some groups that post videos of their LARP fights on the web, it just makes me embarassed to be a human.
Oh yeah, I'm sure you get all the chicks yelling out, "LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!" while throwing pebbles at people.
Simple logic here, the presense of a "portal" does not automatically add the requirement of having an "account." You can use a portal without the portal having to know who you are.
Try it and see. Go to my.yahoo.com and... *GASP* there it is.. a search bar for you to do searches with.
Believe it or not, some people actually like portals. They don't enjoy going to 12 different places to find the information they need. One quick scan of their portal of choice and they've consumed the majority of the information that they're interested in.
That's a load of crap. You don't know much about how power supplies work. Energy efficiency is a major factor on how much power is consumed by a computer.
A power supply running at 100% capacity will have horrible efficiency while one running at 60% capacity will at least be semi-tolerable.
I'm curious if you actually measured the wattage that your computer is pulling in from the power outlet or if you just did some calculations based on the rated wattage of the power supplies. If the latter, your calculations are completely useless and you're probably using more electricity with the 230 instead of the 400-600.
It's Heisenberg all over again!
Yes, it most likely would have been dead but there's this new thing that people are doing called CPR. It helps keep people's body alive long enough to get them to a hospital. I hear that quite a few people have been saved by it. Maybe you've heard of it too?
Besides, how quickly do you answer your front door? The lady had to make the 911 call on her VOIP service, hear the recording, and run outside and across the lawn to the neighbors house while carrying the baby. Then she had to wait for them to answer the door so she could explain the situation and get them to call 911 on their phone. This could have easily taken a few minutes. A few minutes where she could have been doing that new fangled CPR thing.
Ask any paramedic and that few minutes could easily mean the difference between life and death, especially for an infant.
...Firefox will reach the 80.592 million mark. Then we have a long wait until the 94.68715 million mark.
What's with the arbitrary "marks"? 80 million? What about 75 million? That's 3/4 of 100 million which is much nicer than saying 4/5 of 100 million. Better yet, what about 100 million being the next "mark"? That's 7/7 of 100 million.
Frankly, I'm suprised most of these spam operations haven't moved to most Asian, African or some European countries by now. From those locations, they're perfectly free to send as much spam as they desire with no fear of criminal prosecution.
Yes, I'm sure in your mind the world revolves around you but here in the real world, some people actually consider the situation of a person other than themselves from time to time.
You have broadband. Lots of people still don't. For instance, every time Firefox releases a new version, I have to burn it to a cd for a friend of my wife's at work so they don't have to sit around for an hour at home waiting for it to download.
And what does that "Check for Updates" do? That's right, it downloads the full installer to your desktop and executes it which is exactly the same as downloading it manually from mozilla.org except with a couple less mouse clicks. It still has to run the entire installer asking you if you want to re-create icons on the desktop/toolbar/start menu, do a quick/custom install and a few other things.
Probably not. The comment wasn't focused at a gamer though, it was focused at the original poster. If somebody writes in to Slashdot asking where to find a mainboard that doesn't have any on board stuff because they already have a NIC, sound and video cards, they obviously are not a gamer. No gamer I've ever come across would let themselves become that out of touch with the hardware industry.
Ask yourself this, "Does Linux support multiple cpu's?"
You now have your answer.
Or maybe those towers aren't really tv towers like the original poster thinks they are.
The cell phone companies most likely don't want to have to deal with real estate taxes were they to buy property to put towers up. There's many municipalities that get the majority of their tax base from property taxes and things like cell phone towers would most likely be taxed highly due to "impact."
Don't forget landfills.
Well, there's two options:
One, he's using the $10k to pay for *some* of the wedding expenses.
Two, his daughters aren't having weddings that consist of needless expense.
I like the latter option personally. Total cost for my wedding was under $1k.
After you were finished watching the Discovery show about lightning, did you happen to watch the video of the Challenger where it shows the burning gases venting from the side of the SRB just before the explosion? It's a kinda popular video. It was visible in rebroadcasts of the failed launch played on tv less than an hour after the explosion so you'll have to come up with a black helicopter theory about how "they" planned it all and made the "doctored" video available immediately after the explosion.
I don't think the French care much about the purity of the english language either.
He's proud enough to characterize a whole class of people intelligent enough to operate a computer as mouth-breathing idiots. Apparantly you've never done tech support before. Ever.
*cues scene of librarians dropping out of black helicopters to deny you access to information that the Illuminati have deemed not safe for consumption*
Give me a break. Just because some nutcase found that one historical figure had more books written about them than another historical figure, doesn't mean that the librarians are out to control who gets access to what information.
I've seen some pretty hair-brained theories on Slashdot before but this takes the cake.
# Support for MPEG1, 2, 4, and WMV9 scaled up to 1024x768
# MPEG2 main profile/main level (720x480, 10Mbps, 30fps)
# MPEG4 advanced simple profile/level 5 (720x480, 8Mbps, 30fps)
# WMV9 main profile/medium level (720x480, 2Mbps, 30fps)
Doesn't look too bad to me. This was for the Au1200 btw.
In FFXI, Square recently did take action against a bunch of botters. Granted, it may be a bit "too little, too late" for many but at least they did something.
That's all fine and well if you've got money to burn on unnecessary things but quite a few organizations have a budget that they need to adhere to. Sure, in some horribly sadistic way, I guess I can see some glimmer of a benefit to every machine having the same type of network card but the added time/expense/hassle of cracking open each and every case to put in a network card is just unimaginable to me. You can't possibly deal with many 1U chassis very often. I don't even think most blade servers have the ability to have an extra NIC installed on them.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that what you're talking about doing is complete nonsense IMO.