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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
States will typically enforce payment of use tax at the time of vehicle registration for vehicles which were recently bought in another state and for which no sales tax was paid. This happened to me when I moved to Pennsylvania right after
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
I wasn't aware of this, but I don't agree with your assertion that it is illegal. A district court judge wrote what appears to be a very poorly considered decision in the process of issuing an injunction, and Zediva didn't have the resourc
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
There is still field work to be done in anthropology, but I have it on pretty good authority that grants are very thin unless you have a last name like Leakey. My friend was on the faculty at Harvard; now she's a lawyer because she doesn't
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Before getting a PhD, you should consider that this might make you less qualified than someone holding a bachelors or masters degree. As the author states, academia breaks you down and remakes you in its image, which will make it harder
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
I expect that "insolvent governments" refers to the likelihood that a government in financial difficulties will eventually resort to confiscating the assets which its citizens hold in foreign accounts in addition to the confiscation of of d
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
"doing the same thing with DVD players" implies to me that you would have a set of large warehouses containing stripped down DVD players, DVDs, and some automated mechanism of loading and unloading DVDs into players which ensures that a giv
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
I'm seeing a fair few duplicates in the results, probably need to work on the algorithm for filtering these out.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
This probably explains why Nvidia doesn't release open source versions of their drivers.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
More like the parasites of the internet.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Not to mention the mental image I get when reading the acronym of the Total Integration Testing System out loud. I was thinking of forwarding the link to other developers in the company, but this stopped me in my tracks and made me wonder
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Use of nuclear weapons against primary (i.e. military) targets that are isolated from civilian populations would not be an atrocity in this case. If e.g. Iran were to manage to sink a US aircraft carrier, I have no doubt that they would se
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
How do you suggest to handle the fact that there are many websites which break the "back" button these days? I've gotten to the point where I open a new tab practically every time I follow a link. Not to mention news sites where you need
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Actually, I encounter the problem of mismatched .so versions constantly when running new programs or libraries that are built from source. It would be nice if developers would figure out how to use libtool (and whatever the Windows equival
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Artillery doesn't fire slugs unless you count tank rounds that are designed to kill other tanks (e.g. discarding sabot depleted uranium rounds). Most artillery rounds are fused for air burst to spread shrapnel around efficiently.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Webkit is pretty much an open standard and can't be used by a dominant entity to disadvantage competitors.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
They've definitely been hit with charges related to forming a pricing cartel in electronic books.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Can you get Apple to list it on the app store if it does?
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Without the legal pressure, the status quo would have remained, websites would still be optimized for quirks in how Explorer renders HTML (unless the developers were passionate enough about openness to spend the extra effort to work correct
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
If your care is good but major media outlets smear it by providing misleading information instead of balanced coverage, then people will never form their own assessment. Tesla provided vehicles to these companies for review with the unders
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
When competition between companies lowers the cost of goods and services, that's considered to be a good thing; why is it considered a bad thing when competition between governments lowers tax rates? Lots of governments look like they coul
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Actually, I will need a robotic shirt-folding device, but in my home. Folding shirts sucks.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
If by "throw in the towel" you mean "work diligently to find ways to replace workers with technology in order to remain profitable," then I fully agree with you. Heaping more burden on employers simply accelerates the process. It's all go
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Inverse slavery won't happen because the minority will simply leave. This is what happened in Eastern Europe before the fall of communism, and what currently happens in places like Cuba and Venezuela. This is even happening to Western Eur
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Good luck with that "global" tax on financial transactions; there are numerous markets in second-tier countries which see this as an excellent competitive advantage, and those countries are motivated to resist pressure to implement the tax
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
There are numerous individual software developers in finance that are easily making $450,000+ cash without resorting to stock and option grants.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Because Microsoft is just as happy to sell overpriced packages of unnecessary functionality to clueless or corrupt government employees as Cisco is, and they have the extra property of arguing fervently against the use of free/open source s
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
It is if you are in a situation in which the building power source is much, much more likely to fail than the power supply is, which is definitely the case in a rural school or library. You have to get to a pretty high level of sophisticat
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Actually, the real crime is that they don't sue Cisco to be allowed to exchange the original routers for new ones with appropriate capacity along with a refund in the price difference, with Cisco eating the depreciation and the legal fees.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
The fact that the government is not competent to spend taxpayers' money wisely seems like a good reason to be anti-government. After hearing enough anecdotal evidence on this topic (which very few people have both the capability and desire
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by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
> CHP officers call this the "personality test" - and they administer it every time you get pulled over, BTW. This is pretty much true of all police agencies. "Contempt of cop" is one of the worst offenses you can commit in terms of yo

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