This means that if my employer pays me in nickels then I also must pay more in income tax to the feds as a nickel is worth more then five cents in pure metal value these days.
No, you can go to the bank and get nickles for 5 cents each. You can not go to the bank and get $20 gold pieces for $20 each.
If you were melting down the nickels and selling the bulk metal you would be in violation of more than tax laws.
A simple check of the serial number should be able to determine whether it is stolen or not.
It has been my (limited) experience that Dell does everything through the "warranty number". Every machine that they ship has one that can be used online to for check warranty status, shipping configuration, and upgrades. I was even surprised to find that a laptop I had bought, used, a year earlier was still under warranty (although never tested to see if they would honor it). From the fine blog;
They asked for a "warranty number" that doesn't actually appear on the machine anywhere...
Why would something like that have been removed?
Old people are pathologically addicted to using the word "addiction" to make anything they don't like sound scary. The brain can adapt to virtually any stimulus and once removed, will not function as well without it. So if you go for long countryside walks every day and enjoy it, then you get injured and can't do it for a few months, you'll miss going for those long countryside walks. That's completely different to chemical addiction you get from heroin or nicotine, but then most people can't tell the difference.
Not sure why you felt the need to make a dig against "old people" but whatever.
An addiction is an addiction. You seem to mostly be talking about withdrawal and, yes, there are differences between chemical and psychological withdrawal.
What we are talking about here, using your analogy, is; you go for long countryside walks every day and enjoy it. You enjoy it so much that you choose to go for a walk instead of going to school or work. Then when asked, you lie about ditching school/work.
...Kurzweil suggests we'll all be in robot bodies before the century's end...
I think I would rather have the robot augmentation than chance stem cells turning on me.
From the above link;
Then he was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2005. That tumor, it turns out, grew out of the stem cells, obtained from at least two aborted fetuses, used in his brain.
Besides can stem cells give you telescopic vision? Now that would be cool!
You're thinking current. These are static charges, I believe.
How do you hold a static charge across a conductor?
If it conducts then there has to be current, what with ohm's law and all.
But, yeah, there must be something missing in TFA (assuming; since I didn't read it;-) as trying to drop even something less than a volt through a nano-tube would probably vaporize it.
Woah... this is weird! I clicked your link and the found your link... clicked that link and found your link again... I am in the process of seeing how far it goes...
Give him a break, he's probably high;-)
But legalization does have to do with money. Pot is a weed after all - it will grow just about anywhere. How do you tax something like that? While it's true beer and wine can be made at home they are nowhere as easy to make as throwing a handful of seeds out in the backyard. Sow in the spring harvest in the fall. If that doesn't work raid your neighbor's patch.
We bought an 8kW generator when we moved to Maine five years ago. My first thought was to buy a larger unit, but there's a problem with this idea. Compare fuel consumption fully loaded and at half load. IIRC, half load still consumes about 3/4 of the full load fuel. Generators become much less efficient at low loads--this means that you want to size it right, not oversize it. Running a generator isn't cheap.
I have always wondered are there generators that can run off (for those that have it) natural gas or propane? If it is plumed into the homes gas supply it could, in theory, run indefinitely and would be much cleaner (and probably cheaper) than gasoline or diesel.
What about running the exhaust into the chimney? That way you could have the generator in your basement rather than an out building.
So far this winter makes it look like a generator is something we should consider for a permanent installation.
Right. Using sonar, the robot is able to determine the composition of the chair.
That's a bit cynical. While it's unlikely this thing is as autonomous as they would like us to believe there may be an explanation for the "detailed" description of the objects. Perhaps it was taught that an object of that height/width is a "wooden chair". And, much as a young child will run around and point at any small animal and say "doggy!" no matter what type of animal it is, anything about that size and shape is recognized as a "wooden chair".
Without more information it's hard to say for sure.
For $1M, the perp may be encouraged to try some Ninja access. Dead-tree plant in your residence and an anonymous phone call... that's all it would take.
How do you collect the reward if you report it anonymously?
You might be correct (and super paranoid;-) if you rephrase it that the company frames someone they don't like and claim that there was an anonymous tip. That way the company gets free publicity by offering a reward but doesn't have to actually pay the $1M.
Besides I'm sure anyone trying to claim $1M will be thoroughly investigated as well.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
