It is the "accounting for taxes etc." part that makes your claim hard to prove. A typical US resident pays average of 6% sales tax and 30% income tax. In the UK they pay closer to 20% sales tax and 60% in income tax.
60% income tax for the UK is a marginal rate that very few would pay and those that would, would have deductions to offset it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_tax_NIC_percentages.svg would suggest that the average would be closer to 30%, perhaps 25%. Also don't confuse the rate with what is actually paid.
Encryption but to be extra paranoid, don't bring a laptop. You need to assume that there will be spies on your own payroll. Someone supplementing their pay and being patriotic at the same time. Paranoia is a good thing. Encryption is critical but don't assume it is a magic bullet. If they video or capture you typing in your password then you will have a false sense of security.
How many American CEOs were in the military, related to someone in the military etc. Being in the PLA does not mean much. It is the ones NOT in the PLA you need to worry about.
As an Australian then you will know that debates have been a big deal for Australian politics, including the infamous "worm" showing the performance of each speaker. The debate between Keating and Hewson probably won the election for Keating, one he was expected to lose. Debates are a way to get a feel for the speaker without (fully) prepared speeches and under a bit of pressure.
Perhaps it was a remote control plane, a toy, that was flying much closer to you than you thought. Being small it looked like it was further away travelling at great speed.
Birds catching the sunlight while you are in darkness on the ground can equally look strange particularly if they are in bright sunlight while you are not.
The Apple II+ was more expensive than other PCs at the time. It was the first computer i bought.
But price competitiveness is a difficult thing to compare as we are not comparing apples to apples (pun intended). So if the product is not the same how can you say the price is wrong? This might be true for comparing a PC today to another PC but even those offer different features, perhaps soft features like resale value, support, reliability etc. Given that most Apple computers were good value and definitely not 2x - 4x what another company would charge for the same thing. It may 2 x what another company would charge by leaving out those soft factors or not having to pay the same % of R&D by simplying copying Apple's work. Given that Apple could not "magic" up a product without R&D, i don't see how you come up with those numbers. Instead i will just assume it is a rant, especially given it is in an article nothing to do with Apple.
I assume the image is the size it is because while the source images were wider, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/WFC3_FS_HTML.html mentions a 4096 x 4096 sensor, but after stacking, the 2382 x 2078 are the common pixels to all images. Each image may include extra data that does not overlap with all the other images, so it is cropped.
rather ironic given that http://www.billhicks.com/ is covered with ads and looks so poorly designed that he could use a marketing person to clean it up.
you know.... it is more about you paying attention to the pilot and flight attendants during takeoff and being prepared to make an emergency exit. If it was about EMI than you would be required to prove you have turned everything off. Most phones and iPads get put into sleep mode anyway
You are thinking in classical timelines. As time did not exist before the big bang then there is no "before the big bang"
> someone who can make decisions to bring something into existence
And the need to whip up the prior existance of an imaginary critter to create a big bang somehow puts your mind at rest. If there was an imaginary critter to "decide" to create the universe why would it use a big bang? Given how ridiculous that is.... perhaps that should reassure that no imaginary critter exists.
Given some stars come from other galaxies that the Milky Way swallowed and also some stars are ejected from clusters it is not surprising some stars are "launched out of alignment with the galaxy"
I knew someone who flew on the concorde once (only once). He said that even though it was supposed to be all first class it wasn't all that comfortable. The plane was small and because of the speed it was noisy and hot (perhaps the aircon was on the blink). He said the plane hit an airpocket and he spilled his red wine on his shirt which wasn't impressing him. But it WAS fast, though this was before the days of long security checking lines.
Just as you justify stealing Texas, New Mexico, California etc, China has justification on its borders with India. Why do you assume that India has a stronger case? There were probably more people in Texas than there were in those border regions. So that does make a difference?
btw, your caps lock key is not working as it sticks every now and then.
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Just like North Dakota gets more senators per person than California
It is the "accounting for taxes etc." part that makes your claim hard to prove. A typical US resident pays average of 6% sales tax and 30% income tax. In the UK they pay closer to 20% sales tax and 60% in income tax.
60% income tax for the UK is a marginal rate that very few would pay and those that would, would have deductions to offset it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_tax_NIC_percentages.svg would suggest that the average would be closer to 30%, perhaps 25%. Also don't confuse the rate with what is actually paid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_Kingdom#Income_tax shows that the National Insurance brings in 104 billion pounds and health outlays is 109 billion.
Encryption but to be extra paranoid, don't bring a laptop. You need to assume that there will be spies on your own payroll. Someone supplementing their pay and being patriotic at the same time. Paranoia is a good thing. Encryption is critical but don't assume it is a magic bullet. If they video or capture you typing in your password then you will have a false sense of security.
And yet Local Government is far more known for its corruption.
How many American CEOs were in the military, related to someone in the military etc. Being in the PLA does not mean much. It is the ones NOT in the PLA you need to worry about.
As an Australian then you will know that debates have been a big deal for Australian politics, including the infamous "worm" showing the performance of each speaker. The debate between Keating and Hewson probably won the election for Keating, one he was expected to lose. Debates are a way to get a feel for the speaker without (fully) prepared speeches and under a bit of pressure.
i will pay that one...
> until at infinite velocity, its mass became zero.
finally a diet that works!
There is one in the air and space museum near Dulles airport in Washington DC. Saw it a few months ago. Very cool.
Perhaps it was a remote control plane, a toy, that was flying much closer to you than you thought. Being small it looked like it was further away travelling at great speed.
Birds catching the sunlight while you are in darkness on the ground can equally look strange particularly if they are in bright sunlight while you are not.
The Apple II+ was more expensive than other PCs at the time. It was the first computer i bought.
But price competitiveness is a difficult thing to compare as we are not comparing apples to apples (pun intended). So if the product is not the same how can you say the price is wrong? This might be true for comparing a PC today to another PC but even those offer different features, perhaps soft features like resale value, support, reliability etc. Given that most Apple computers were good value and definitely not 2x - 4x what another company would charge for the same thing. It may 2 x what another company would charge by leaving out those soft factors or not having to pay the same % of R&D by simplying copying Apple's work. Given that Apple could not "magic" up a product without R&D, i don't see how you come up with those numbers. Instead i will just assume it is a rant, especially given it is in an article nothing to do with Apple.
There is a 13Mb TIFF you can download.
I assume the image is the size it is because while the source images were wider, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/WFC3_FS_HTML.html mentions a 4096 x 4096 sensor, but after stacking, the 2382 x 2078 are the common pixels to all images. Each image may include extra data that does not overlap with all the other images, so it is cropped.
I dunno. i see Anonymous Coward post a lot. Seems to be a very busy account...
If time started with the big bang then there is no such thing as before. A bit outside our typical Newtonian experience but there it is....
i see that humour just wooshed right on over....
rather ironic given that http://www.billhicks.com/ is covered with ads and looks so poorly designed that he could use a marketing person to clean it up.
So you are on wife number 4?
you know.... it is more about you paying attention to the pilot and flight attendants during takeoff and being prepared to make an emergency exit. If it was about EMI than you would be required to prove you have turned everything off. Most phones and iPads get put into sleep mode anyway
Woody Allen once said, " the greatest sin in my family was paying retail".
imaginary numbers i can understand. imaginary beings i can't.
> So what came before the Big Bang? Nothing?
You are thinking in classical timelines. As time did not exist before the big bang then there is no "before the big bang"
> someone who can make decisions to bring something into existence
And the need to whip up the prior existance of an imaginary critter to create a big bang somehow puts your mind at rest. If there was an imaginary critter to "decide" to create the universe why would it use a big bang? Given how ridiculous that is.... perhaps that should reassure that no imaginary critter exists.
Given some stars come from other galaxies that the Milky Way swallowed and also some stars are ejected from clusters it is not surprising some stars are "launched out of alignment with the galaxy"
I knew someone who flew on the concorde once (only once). He said that even though it was supposed to be all first class it wasn't all that comfortable. The plane was small and because of the speed it was noisy and hot (perhaps the aircon was on the blink). He said the plane hit an airpocket and he spilled his red wine on his shirt which wasn't impressing him. But it WAS fast, though this was before the days of long security checking lines.
Well the password for the nuclear launch used to be all zeros....
Just as you justify stealing Texas, New Mexico, California etc, China has justification on its borders with India. Why do you assume that India has a stronger case? There were probably more people in Texas than there were in those border regions. So that does make a difference?
btw, your caps lock key is not working as it sticks every now and then.