If you can look at those charts and see any trendline I applaud you. To me it appears the numbers are statistically brownian noise.
Your first paragraph is ok, but then you dive into the deep end... You give no basis for why para 1 is "poison to democracy". Speaking of which, what is this Democracy to which you refer? People like you, with no basis in economics, or civics, are what make the long term prospects of the US "not good".
It is difficult to understand how you could have pulled that BF quote so far out of context. It was referring to the devaluation of currency being effectively a tax and was not related to income tax whatsoever. If anything is would be similar to a tax on the value of savings and investments (not the numeric amount), due to inflation.
Even if it were referring to income tax (e.g. "the most equal of all taxes...is generally proportional to Men's income"), it is per the wording not a progressive tax. A Tax is a nominal value of money paid for some reason, not a rate. Progressive taxes are by definition defined by a tax RATE that is proportional to income/assets/whatever. In a progressive tax, not only does a person with more taxable assets pay more in taxes due to a fixed percentage of the larger value... the percentage itself rises. This is not what is referred to here. Fail.
(Now one could argue that a flat tax on paper assets integrated over time is a progressive tax, since wealthier people would potentially have more money "in the bank" being taxed in relation to total assets, which may be true... The interesting bit about that is it would punish those who saved paper assets, which would likely result in the wealthy moving away from that paper currency as a container of wealth. Franklin argued against use of Gold and metals as wealth containers since the prices were volatile at the time, and with paper effectively taxed, by deflation, other methods of escaping the deflation would likely be sought.)
No, they are not. The software can not make up for hardware limitations and the PS/2 spec. While the kernel does detect the keyboard and it "just works", there is no assurance that the hot-plug will not physically damage the motherboard.
Specifically, per the PS/2 spec, there is support for the current transients that can occur during hor plugging, or for the handling of potential static discharged. The first can blow a microfuse on the motherboard, the second can fry the keyboard interface chip or southbridge if it is integrated. Granted, most motherboards these days are more robust, but it is not a requirement. Try it on an actual (ancient!) IBM PS/2 or similar old computer enough times, and you might find you need a motherboard replaced (or surgery on the existing one).
Using your logic, regular PCI cards (not server level PCI-X or PCI-E) and IDE disk drives are also hot pluggable, in that, hey, if you do it quickly (and happen to have the card edge/connector angled just right so the ground lines connect first, etc) it sometimes works!
The Fuel Cells you refer to convert energy. However there are other fuel cells that store energy. Completely different product, similar only in name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tank#Racing_fuel_cell
Sequential Gearboxes...? You lose.
Wednesday, November 11 2009, "Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!"
Replace your profile text with the lyrics of a song you wrote, with pictures of a painting you drew and issue a Takedown notice to Myspace on your behalf. Bingo!
Many PC laptops, and all recent Macbooks (Pros) have TOSLINK optical outputs - I'm surprised the W500 is lacking this feature. Consumer TOSLINK/SPDIF does not enough bandwidth for the uncompressed surround available on some movies, but it is sufficient for DD5.1, DTS, etc.
It is unfortunate that you bought a laptop that didn't meet your needs.
Where we're going we don't need roads^H^H^H^H^Hgoggles. Lenticular 3D displays are currently available, mostly for promo use. They are power hungry, have a small sweet spot, and need a beowulf cluster to drive them. They may get better with time
You mean "the Ukrainian" yahoos. They love that.
Slightly incorrect. Currently the US cycle is enrichment -> LWR -> On-site Pool.
We haven't buried any yet, at least not in mass quantities. Whatever is pulled out of the reactors is stored onsite in spent fuel pools, and perhaps later in dry storage once the shorter-lived isotopes have died down a bit. NIMBY has (thankfully) prevented this still-useful stuff from getting buried.
In other words, when we DO get some reprocessing plants online, we dont have to dig up old stuff - just (basically) pull it out of storage.
This, coming from a user advocating an OS that doesn't even have an SSH client.
How much of that Classical music would remain today, comparatively, if death+90year copyright was enforced on those works? Beethoven's works would have not been available in public domain until the fall of Tsarist Russia, a few months into WWI.
#1 definitely works. What do you think happened at the Medusa Cascade!
Bullwinkle J. Moose: "Hey Rock, watch me pull net energy out of my tokamak"
Rocket J. Squirrel: "Again? That trick never works!"
Bullwinkle J. Moose: "This time for sure!"
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
