Personally, I'd like to see gasoline taxes based on a) the cost of the vehicle, b) the size of the vehicle (larger vehicles tear up the roads more) and c) the mileage of the vehicle. If you're driving a beater you should pay less than a new car, a new SUV you should get the shit taxed out of you, if you're driving a hybrid you should get a break.
To encourage more people to drive what? Old cramped hybrids? You already get a break in taxes by driving a more fuel efficient vehicle because you don't need to buy as much freaking gas. But I should get taxed more for my newer truck that I NEVER drive w/o a passenger to work, plow driveways in winter, and deliver construction materials?
Lets say it gets 15 MPG. Since I always carpool to work with at least 1 passenger its effectively 30 MPG. Whereas if we were to drive seperately in 25 MPG cars it would be only 12.5 MPG not counting the additional road wear and material cost of 2 vehicles.
If I could get by with a smaller car I would. But I tried it and it didn't work. I drove a 2 seater that I loved before I got the truck. Sometimes, you really do need the larger vehicle.
BUT! 90% of the people out there with vehicles like mine, aren't in the same situation that I am in. However, penalizing the owners of the vehicles (especially after the fact) is a terrible idea. Give them reasons to give up the larger vehicles, don't try to brute force them into accepting it.
If you are going to break into a website, then you need some sort of plan for when/if you succeed.
How about a statement like this:
"The protections applied to this website were more robust than the Digital Rights Management that is applied to CDs DVDs and other forms of digital media. Yet even that didn't stop a determined individual. If this website were a CD, it would be leaked all over the internet, and once cracked, DRM simply becomes an impediment to the legitimate users."
At least they could have tried to make it relevant. However, it is quite possible that they didn't have all that much time or total access to the site. (though if you can erase something, I'm pretty sure that is as close to total access as you need) I'm not too familiar with databases and websites so I don't know how far they could go with it.
somebody tells me something is 350 miles away then I, for one, wouldn't have the foggiest how far that would be right that very instant. I have to calculate.. (350*1.5 is 525, add another 10%, 525+35...) 560. Okay, I know how far that is. Now that calculation takes place pretty fast, but it still needed to be done. If somebody tells me something is 350 kilometers away, I know immediately how far that is*
10% of 525 is 35?
No wonder I never understood metric!
(Relax, it's a joke. And that is a nice simple approximation for conversion. I'll have to remember it.)
Which might be a bit more useful to me than 'terminator' style HUDs. I don't need to know how much fuel is in the gas tank of my car 100% of the time either, the information is slightly off from the important information (the road)
Sure about that? What's to stop them from using man in the middle attacks to decrypt the communications? Are we going to have a certificate registry for pirated material? Not very likely.
Not necessary. The DMCA provides this wonderful protection:
" 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
"(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.--(1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
Now I just need to find the escape clause that the corporations built into it for themselves...
And your post, though we may agree or disagree with your conclusions or rationale is why we shouldn't simply silence those who approach a question from a different angle.
Don't want to work for free? Don't. Nobody's forcing you.
What would happen if when you finished developing a project someone came along, took it and marketed it w/o your consent and didn't pay you a dime? I'm willing to bet that you wouldn't be developing much software in the future.
Well you might, if you had some sort of... guarantee. Something that would help you collect some sort of payment for the work/content you created.
w/o copyrights would we still have people creating content, or exploring ideas? Certainly, but not at the same volume that they would be if there was a slight protection for the person creating that content. The laws around copyrights are, at the moment, broken. But that doesn't mean that the whole idea of copyrights is wrong.
Based on the amount of energy they are observing, I'm not sure that this would be the case at all. While it is a huge amount, it is also spread across a region 10,000 lightyears wide. At those distances it may only be 0.01 positrons per cubic mile.
In contrast, the interstellar medium has a density of a few thousand to a few million atoms per cubic meter.
Granted my estimate of a maximum of 0.01 positrons per cubic mile is based on their statement of 10,000 ly wide and 10,000 solar energy units. A positron/electron reaction releases about 511,000 eV of energy.
So getting back to the concept of density, in what would be an apparantly rare event (assuming human distance approximations) an interaction by a positron and an electron would release a large amount of energy with respect to the amount of mass involved. However a single reaction would not be so dramatic as to have any meaningful impact on the theoretical object.
If the field were so dense as to affect any object on a regular basis (and by regular I mean dense enough to cause an explosion) then you would see a violently active region of the galaxy that was devoid of stars.
*caveat* My math was very loose on those calculations, please correct me if I'm off on my assumptions.
Man you are NOT helping here! Especially with that extra "expect" type word you put in there. And then you also misspelled it later. And the second sentence is more like a sentence fragment. Clearly this article is hurting a lot of people's brains.
I would eagerly extract and edit the erroneous item. Except the egregeous use of exacting diction to exemplify my etymological interests entails effort. Instead I end it entirely, ere I make an assonance of myself.
We expected something unexpected, but we did not expect this
They expected whatever expectorated the radiation was an unexpected source. Yet the expectation that they would find the source of exectoration to be quite so unexpected, that the excited scientists exclaimed that such an extraordinary event was quite unexpected. The exact reason for the non-uniform distribution is still unexplained.
If you consider that this cloud has a non uniform distribution, and it is radiating energy, then that would definately mean there are at least cool/warm sides to the galaxy.
Actually that is exactly what I'm doing when the contract ends. I've got 2 phones, and my wife has a complex whenever it comes to telephones.
I cancelled our landline years ago and went to VOIP. She still won't let me cancel the number because she likes to have the stable 'landline'. Oh well. Slowly phasing it out. Now the terrestrial link rings both the house and her cell. Maybe 2 more months and I can finally drop it.
The measured mass of a galaxy useful? On its own, maybe or maybe not. Yet through this fortunate alignment we were given the chance to get information that, for lack of a better word, helps us 'calibrate' our astronomical tools.
The universe is understood by using phenomenae like this to test our theories and provide a sort of astronomical 'yard stick' by which we can measure other objects. Objects that without this yard stick would be less well understood. One discovery is built upon another until, one by one, they form the sum of our understanding.
So why not go out and measure the mass of that little rock in your backyard? Wouldn't it be amazing to discover that it had a density of 19.3 g/mL?
So you met some kooks who identify themselves as 'libertarians'.... and you believed them?
Look, you can be for cutting down the federal government to a manageable level and that doesn't mean that you would prefer that 100% of the current duties of the federal government to be eliminated.
Though it is a convenient bit of ammunition. Take the most radical element that ever claimed to be of the movement and use them as a strawman for the entire movement.
It may not be true flamebait, but it is close and claiming that we can take it up with a 'PoliSci' professor isn't proving your point. If you claim someone is wrong, more detailed explanation than "I'm right, and I'm sure some random person will agree with me." is necessary.
Should somebody who goes to a bar with friends have the right to anonymity? They are not recording who is drinking, they are recording who enters the place with the scanner.
FTFY and the answer is Yes.
Regardless to the above, what if the bar was a 'specialty' bar?
But as I said, right to anonymity? Yes. It is necessary for privacy.
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It is probably a per pound measurement. Shipping steel or scrap metal is probably a lot cheaper per pound to send by rail than by truck.
Somehow though, I don't believe that the best way to make one option more acceptable is by making all the options suck.
Personally, I'd like to see gasoline taxes based on a) the cost of the vehicle, b) the size of the vehicle (larger vehicles tear up the roads more) and c) the mileage of the vehicle. If you're driving a beater you should pay less than a new car, a new SUV you should get the shit taxed out of you, if you're driving a hybrid you should get a break.
To encourage more people to drive what? Old cramped hybrids? You already get a break in taxes by driving a more fuel efficient vehicle because you don't need to buy as much freaking gas. But I should get taxed more for my newer truck that I NEVER drive w/o a passenger to work, plow driveways in winter, and deliver construction materials?
Lets say it gets 15 MPG. Since I always carpool to work with at least 1 passenger its effectively 30 MPG. Whereas if we were to drive seperately in 25 MPG cars it would be only 12.5 MPG not counting the additional road wear and material cost of 2 vehicles.
If I could get by with a smaller car I would. But I tried it and it didn't work. I drove a 2 seater that I loved before I got the truck. Sometimes, you really do need the larger vehicle.
BUT! 90% of the people out there with vehicles like mine, aren't in the same situation that I am in. However, penalizing the owners of the vehicles (especially after the fact) is a terrible idea. Give them reasons to give up the larger vehicles, don't try to brute force them into accepting it.
Not just that, he said naked in *your* shower.
The force due to gravity of the ISS is so small it might as well be zero.
If you are going to break into a website, then you need some sort of plan for when/if you succeed.
How about a statement like this:
"The protections applied to this website were more robust than the Digital Rights Management that is applied to CDs DVDs and other forms of digital media. Yet even that didn't stop a determined individual. If this website were a CD, it would be leaked all over the internet, and once cracked, DRM simply becomes an impediment to the legitimate users."
At least they could have tried to make it relevant. However, it is quite possible that they didn't have all that much time or total access to the site. (though if you can erase something, I'm pretty sure that is as close to total access as you need) I'm not too familiar with databases and websites so I don't know how far they could go with it.
somebody tells me something is 350 miles away then I, for one, wouldn't have the foggiest how far that would be right that very instant. I have to calculate.. (350*1.5 is 525, add another 10%, 525+35...) 560. Okay, I know how far that is. Now that calculation takes place pretty fast, but it still needed to be done.
If somebody tells me something is 350 kilometers away, I know immediately how far that is*
10% of 525 is 35?
No wonder I never understood metric!
(Relax, it's a joke. And that is a nice simple approximation for conversion. I'll have to remember it.)
Which might be a bit more useful to me than 'terminator' style HUDs. I don't need to know how much fuel is in the gas tank of my car 100% of the time either, the information is slightly off from the important information (the road)
Sure about that? What's to stop them from using man in the middle attacks to decrypt the communications? Are we going to have a certificate registry for pirated material? Not very likely.
Not necessary. The DMCA provides this wonderful protection:
" 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
"(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.--(1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
Now I just need to find the escape clause that the corporations built into it for themselves...
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Don't worry, he wasn't responding to your post. He was responding to the post of someone else. That person insulted his intelligence, not you.
And your post, though we may agree or disagree with your conclusions or rationale is why we shouldn't simply silence those who approach a question from a different angle.
Don't want to work for free? Don't. Nobody's forcing you.
What would happen if when you finished developing a project someone came along, took it and marketed it w/o your consent and didn't pay you a dime? I'm willing to bet that you wouldn't be developing much software in the future.
Well you might, if you had some sort of... guarantee. Something that would help you collect some sort of payment for the work/content you created.
w/o copyrights would we still have people creating content, or exploring ideas? Certainly, but not at the same volume that they would be if there was a slight protection for the person creating that content. The laws around copyrights are, at the moment, broken. But that doesn't mean that the whole idea of copyrights is wrong.
In the water....
Flouridation.
Hmm.
The way I read it that a radiator line popped off, which caused the engine overheat. Not the other way around.
Based on the amount of energy they are observing, I'm not sure that this would be the case at all. While it is a huge amount, it is also spread across a region 10,000 lightyears wide. At those distances it may only be 0.01 positrons per cubic mile.
In contrast, the interstellar medium has a density of a few thousand to a few million atoms per cubic meter.
Granted my estimate of a maximum of 0.01 positrons per cubic mile is based on their statement of 10,000 ly wide and 10,000 solar energy units. A positron/electron reaction releases about 511,000 eV of energy.
So getting back to the concept of density, in what would be an apparantly rare event (assuming human distance approximations) an interaction by a positron and an electron would release a large amount of energy with respect to the amount of mass involved. However a single reaction would not be so dramatic as to have any meaningful impact on the theoretical object.
If the field were so dense as to affect any object on a regular basis (and by regular I mean dense enough to cause an explosion) then you would see a violently active region of the galaxy that was devoid of stars.
*caveat* My math was very loose on those calculations, please correct me if I'm off on my assumptions.
Man you are NOT helping here! Especially with that extra "expect" type word you put in there. And then you also misspelled it later. And the second sentence is more like a sentence fragment. Clearly this article is hurting a lot of people's brains.
I would eagerly extract and edit the erroneous item. Except the egregeous use of exacting diction to exemplify my etymological interests entails effort. Instead I end it entirely, ere I make an assonance of myself.
Your comment ruined my attempts to search through this thread for my old posts :p
Though my present occupation has its biases. I'd always prefer to see my tax dollars thrown at understanding our universe, rather than war.
We expected something unexpected, but we did not expect this
They expected whatever expectorated the radiation was an unexpected source. Yet the expectation that they would find the source of exectoration to be quite so unexpected, that the excited scientists exclaimed that such an extraordinary event was quite unexpected. The exact reason for the non-uniform distribution is still unexplained.
If you consider that this cloud has a non uniform distribution, and it is radiating energy, then that would definately mean there are at least cool/warm sides to the galaxy.
I hope I don't have to pack up and move.
Actually that is exactly what I'm doing when the contract ends. I've got 2 phones, and my wife has a complex whenever it comes to telephones.
I cancelled our landline years ago and went to VOIP. She still won't let me cancel the number because she likes to have the stable 'landline'. Oh well. Slowly phasing it out. Now the terrestrial link rings both the house and her cell. Maybe 2 more months and I can finally drop it.
The measured mass of a galaxy useful? On its own, maybe or maybe not. Yet through this fortunate alignment we were given the chance to get information that, for lack of a better word, helps us 'calibrate' our astronomical tools.
The universe is understood by using phenomenae like this to test our theories and provide a sort of astronomical 'yard stick' by which we can measure other objects. Objects that without this yard stick would be less well understood. One discovery is built upon another until, one by one, they form the sum of our understanding.
So why not go out and measure the mass of that little rock in your backyard? Wouldn't it be amazing to discover that it had a density of 19.3 g/mL?
So you met some kooks who identify themselves as 'libertarians'.... and you believed them?
Look, you can be for cutting down the federal government to a manageable level and that doesn't mean that you would prefer that 100% of the current duties of the federal government to be eliminated.
Though it is a convenient bit of ammunition. Take the most radical element that ever claimed to be of the movement and use them as a strawman for the entire movement.
It may not be true flamebait, but it is close and claiming that we can take it up with a 'PoliSci' professor isn't proving your point. If you claim someone is wrong, more detailed explanation than "I'm right, and I'm sure some random person will agree with me." is necessary.
I quoted the wrong post. Sorry. Please attribute my statements to the parent of your post.
Should somebody who goes to a bar with friends have the right to anonymity? They are not recording who is drinking, they are recording who enters the place with the scanner.
FTFY and the answer is Yes.
Regardless to the above, what if the bar was a 'specialty' bar?
But as I said, right to anonymity? Yes. It is necessary for privacy.