patrickg-zill

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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Thanks for the update. I lived in CO in the late 1990s and actually had an employer take a while to pay me, which is why I incorrectly assumed that the law was the same, when it has in fact changed. It is actually more difficult than I tho
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Actually, you are quite wrong about that... many states have exactly those provisions, e.g. Colorado http://www.allbusiness.com/human-resources/compensation-sala... 20 seconds of google would have shown you that ... (BTW if your claim of
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Yes, that is my understanding. The officers of the company are personally liable for the cash if there is no other source of funding.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Actually you are wrong about the price tag issue: --the whole point of these screens, is that they can be made using existing LCD screen manufacturing technology, with some number of tweaks. There have been billions upon billions already s
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I commend you for your honesty. It will be a TAX on every energy consumer in the world (since energy is used to produce all items including those that are exported). It won't actually DO anything to fix the environment, just fill government
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Interesting but not added to the article is that the rise and fall of the users of those swords, correlates in some ways with the rise and fall of the supply of the material used to make the swords. That is, when the supply dried up, they
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
CVS is Jeremy Irons and darcs is Michael Caine. I can do this crap all day.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
So in other words, any halfway competent pen and ink artist can frame you with 5 minutes of his time, a 3x5 index card, and casually sticking something into your coat pocket at a cafe, then calling the cops.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
The key is if they can produce something as good as the e-ink display without the need for a glass substrate. The glass is the part that cracks/breaks.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Read up on Benetton in Argentina also.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
You would be right, if the coins were not made by the US Government and marked "$50". What is the IRS going to say, that the US Mint is guilty of counterfeiting?
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Here is the conundrum that the IRS is in.. The US Government has placed a face value on the coins, a 1-ounce gold coin is marked 50 US Dollars. The intrinsic value of that coin today is right around $1000. IF they argue that intrinsic valu
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Even though Theo de Raadt is often abrasive, you have to give him credit for making "do it right" cool enough to attract others to his security-first perspective. OpenBSD, OpenSSH (used now in most Linux distros), OpenBGP (complex routing)
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I would like to mention the movie "Idiocracy" as a complement to this discussion. The trailer on YouTube gives you a good sense of the movie.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Book of Ecclesiastes, nuff said.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
If they truly have a dimensionally accurate Fallingwater, I have to admit that my ability to resist it even at a high price would be quite low...
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
War usually does the job.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I wonder though, if you compared the performance of one of these 12-Nano systems, with a loaded 48GB RAM, dual quad-core Nehalem system running Xen and connected to relatively fast disks, which would be faster overall? 48GB RAM = 4GB per X
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Why are they uneasy? They see the GM bondholders (secured debt) get screwed in favor of the unsecured bondholders. They figure if it can happen with GM under government control, it might happen with USD, which is under the control of the s
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Funny anecdote from Sun bigwig: using your Erdos number to decide who goes first in line... http://blogs.sun.com/stern/entry/seating_algorithms_and_why_...
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I feel bad for the people mentioned ... however, just by virtue of being in the US/Canada/Western Europe etc. you have already "won life's lottery". Is it also expensive to be a flea-bitten, hungry, malnourished baby in Africa and with only
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
It used to be that marriage was a contract between you, your intended spouse, and God. Now, it is a contract between you, your intended spouse, and "The State". And therefore when you marry you are giving the State some measure of control
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Want market share? Try the truth! Or at least, a level of intelligence in your reporting that doesn't insult.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I think he is using the MSFT technology as the worst case or "caveman" approach and then contrasting it with situations where the person outsmarted themselves.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I would say about $2 provided that the piracy issue is solved in one way or another. Essentially 75 cents to author, 25 cents to overhead and editing, 25 cents to distribution/billing costs, plus 75 cents profit.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
It is standard divide and conquer identity politics. The NYT could have conclusive proof the world would end on December 12th 2012, and the headline would be "Women and Minorities Will Have to Forgo Christmas, Hanukkah Celebrations"
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Reminds me of the Bruce Sterling novel, "Heavy Weather" where the bad guys that work for the government have Rolex-like watches that have explosives in them permanently clamped to their wrists. In the novel, when a force 6 storm goes throug
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
People who live outside the country are already outliers to begin with. Only 20% of Americans even have a passport. (I knew a woman who was in her mid-30s that had never been outside the state of Pennsylvania; her first trip to NYC was at t
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
If my understanding is correct, the $4K is paid after taxes and the ex-wife pays no taxes on the money received. That is, he is going to pay $48K per year in child support but has to earn maybe $70K pre tax.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
This has been long predicted... since people who are pro-choice would be more likely to be having abortions or not conceiving in the first place; while those who are pro-life are more likely to have children of their own and pass their beli

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