no, he sounds like a kid that wants a gum ball, but the only widespread seller is the MOB. They use this money to break grandmas' kneecaps, kill kittens, and kick puppies.
He finds out that these people have a way to make gumballs for minimal cost, and are giving them away. This sounds much better than giving the kitten killing, puppy kicking MOB a quarter.
Now you could argue that refraining from partaking in the gumball would be the high road, but how will they know what I really want a "clean" gumball, and not no gumball if there isn't interest in gumballs at all.
Anyways, that I think is my first and only attempt at a gumball analogy for this. Most of these fail due to not have a magic machine that takes very little power and make limitless copies of gumballs, but pretend such a device exists.
I'd argue he is choosing which sounds play when, no differently than a person playing a guitar.
Also what is stopping a Musician from being the composer/songwriter/arranger as well? So you are saying that if there is no payment structure for something it shouldn't exist? Hmm, see Http://www.kernel.org/ it seems like it could use your help getting a payment system setup. or maybe http://www.mozilla.org/ .
As much as i like the idea of in wheel motors, unsprung weight is something of a no-no in car design. Maybe just sticking the motor in the middle of the car and using a CV shaft would be a better plan.
not really because it would not be a flat $2/mile for all cars.
your motorbike (very light, a few hundred pounds) might pay $0.20/mile, while a civic might pay $1/mile, and a "gas-guzzling Maibastu Monstrosity that gets 3MPG" might pay $5/mile.
so no, it could be worked to be fairly equivalent lent to the current fuel taxes. or for that matter punish larger cars more.
This doesn't begin to describe the other avenues of taxation that make no sense, such as making biofuel (when does it make sense to turn your food into a car fuel?).
Not all bio fuel is made from food plants(just the inefficiently produced biofuel), and it doesn't even need to compete with food growing land.
The problem here is that very little of the general tax fund is making it's way to roads. So when you have a high MPG car, you pay less tax per mile.
A simple solution would move to requiring odometer readings when you get new tags, and taxing you based on the offset. If you sold a car it would then be taxed based on the mileage on it when the new owner gets tags, and would be based on the mileage shown on the title/bill of sale. Odometers are already devices you can not legally tamper with in most of the USA. Grade the tax rate by making some weight classes, and the more it weighs the more per mile it pays. I'm thinking weight is major factor in road wear.
Did the court order him to turn over all parts required to make the drives functional? or just the drives? once sony discovered that they had not asked for enough parts, did they then ask the court to make Mr. Hotz provide the missing parts?
I'll ignore the part about the planed trip(the only way i'm sure his lawyer let him go), and i bet he can produce a receipt of sale predating this proceeding.
not to say that nuclear is all rainbows and unicorns, but you see to have missed the waste products of producing your tidal generators, wind turbines, and solar collectors.
I expect nuclear to have a fair sized pile of waste as well, but i fell fairly confident that the energy used to produce, store, and cleanup the "waste" is far less than the amount of power the plant will produce over its life including upkeep. So no the worst case for a wind turbine, is "wow, look at the huge Cu sulfur mine, and that ruined ecosystem, and we aren't getting much power from it because we built a solar collector in Pennsylvania, and it is cloudy 3/4ths of the year and 1/8 of the year the damn thing is broke"
Again a similar statement can be made of generation II reactors(like this one in Japan), but not all Gen3 or Gen4 designs have the huge fuel processing requirements of U-233/U-235.
This graph basicly looks like a chart of the differances in speed between, Cable, DSL and Satellite. Sure you have some slightly faster cable providers, but in general they all are about the same speed.
This also isn't accounting for anyone QoS'ing their own connection, so that watching 3 netflix streams doesn't cripple the internet.
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He finds out that these people have a way to make gumballs for minimal cost, and are giving them away. This sounds much better than giving the kitten killing, puppy kicking MOB a quarter.
Now you could argue that refraining from partaking in the gumball would be the high road, but how will they know what I really want a "clean" gumball, and not no gumball if there isn't interest in gumballs at all.
Anyways, that I think is my first and only attempt at a gumball analogy for this. Most of these fail due to not have a magic machine that takes very little power and make limitless copies of gumballs, but pretend such a device exists.
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Just think, would you be able to post here without section 230 safe harbors? i think not, too much risk for Mike.
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so this guy isn't a musician? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O31fAYdjdVU
I'd argue he is choosing which sounds play when, no differently than a person playing a guitar.
Also what is stopping a Musician from being the composer/songwriter/arranger as well? So you are saying that if there is no payment structure for something it shouldn't exist? Hmm, see Http://www.kernel.org/ it seems like it could use your help getting a payment system setup. or maybe http://www.mozilla.org/ .
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http://www.hobbymods.com/Samsung%20tv%20power%20up%20problem%20relay%20clicking.htm
http://ww w.thebuzzmedia.com/samsung-tv-capacitor-clicking-issue-and-free-repair/
Want to mail me the old set? ;-P
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http://www.amazon.com/58MM-Quality-Optical-Infrared-Threaded/dp/B003U68DZK
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in wheel motors
Un-sprung weights make the car unresponsive, and handle poorly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_mass for more reading on it.
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your motorbike (very light, a few hundred pounds) might pay $0.20/mile, while a civic might pay $1/mile, and a "gas-guzzling Maibastu Monstrosity that gets 3MPG" might pay $5/mile.
so no, it could be worked to be fairly equivalent lent to the current fuel taxes. or for that matter punish larger cars more.
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Not all bio fuel is made from food plants(just the inefficiently produced biofuel), and it doesn't even need to compete with food growing land.
The problem here is that very little of the general tax fund is making it's way to roads. So when you have a high MPG car, you pay less tax per mile.
A simple solution would move to requiring odometer readings when you get new tags, and taxing you based on the offset. If you sold a car it would then be taxed based on the mileage on it when the new owner gets tags, and would be based on the mileage shown on the title/bill of sale. Odometers are already devices you can not legally tamper with in most of the USA. Grade the tax rate by making some weight classes, and the more it weighs the more per mile it pays. I'm thinking weight is major factor in road wear.
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I'll ignore the part about the planed trip(the only way i'm sure his lawyer let him go), and i bet he can produce a receipt of sale predating this proceeding.
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I expect nuclear to have a fair sized pile of waste as well, but i fell fairly confident that the energy used to produce, store, and cleanup the "waste" is far less than the amount of power the plant will produce over its life including upkeep. So no the worst case for a wind turbine, is "wow, look at the huge Cu sulfur mine, and that ruined ecosystem, and we aren't getting much power from it because we built a solar collector in Pennsylvania, and it is cloudy 3/4ths of the year and 1/8 of the year the damn thing is broke"
Again a similar statement can be made of generation II reactors(like this one in Japan), but not all Gen3 or Gen4 designs have the huge fuel processing requirements of U-233/U-235.
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This also isn't accounting for anyone QoS'ing their own connection, so that watching 3 netflix streams doesn't cripple the internet.
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