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  1. :) Hulu - Sliders: Season's Greedings - Watch the full episode now.@@AMEPARAM@@http://www.hulu.com/embed/l6WEFTy-zqPxTayhBScFBQ@@AMEPARAM@@l6WEFTy-zqPxTayhBScFBQ http://www.hulu.com/watch/77613/sliders-seasons-greedings
  2. Smallocracy - Academic Publishing Wiki
  3. Knowing that when power factor is less than 0.5, the reactive power is greater than the true power, how much heat can be produced by an inductive DC circuit (whose charge source is a single AA battery) where 50% or more of the power is dissipated by backspikes caused by sudden breaks in the circuit?
  4. No. A person is brainwashed individual attracts derision based on actions associated with espoused values, times the inflexibility of those beliefs. In general the equation for brainwashing is: [math]washed_{brain}=derision_{attract}*\frac{derision(values_{espoused})}{derision_{total}}/conversion_{prob(t>0)}[/math]
  5. It sounds, or feels, like a formation of a new class in society.
  6. Heavy: How it weights Unit: Signifies individual mission Gaining: What it is doing Gamma: What it is getting Light: What this is Energy: What this is fundamentally The HUGGLE Space Telescope Successor of the Hubble Space Telescope
  7. HUGEST or HUGE Space Telescope High: location of telescope Ultra: degree of radiation Gamma: energy type Energy: what it contains Space: where it is seen Telescope: what it is
  8. Smallocracy - Academic Publishing Wiki - a Wikia wiki Smallocracy From Academic Publishing Wiki An artist's rendition of Bearfire Ski Resort in Texas. The image is used because it fits the architectural scale that is envisioned for a Smallocratic community. Smallocracy (rule by the supermall) is a philosophy that assumes that very large malls offering all the comforts of a small town offer the optimum way to promote economic freedom, social opportunity, a way of political independence, and security of health. Contents * 1 Infrastructure o 1.1 Rural-style retreats o 1.2 Urban-style mobility o 1.3 Suburban-style standard of living * 2 Economic freedom o 2.1 Property rights o 2.2 Finances for the common good * 3 Social opportunity o 3.1 Vocational education o 3.2 Semi-retirement community * 4 Political organization Infrastructure Before a democratic society can develop, access to natural resources are necessary. When made available, these natural resources must be spent on power and supply chain infrastructure in order to provide a high standard of living to future residents. In highly democratic societies, these natural resources and infrastructure serve the best interests of the people, without distinction to race, gender, or class. Such communities vary from rural, urban, and suburban. Smallocracy proposes a system in which the best capacities of rural, urban, and suburban design are unified. Rural-style retreats Rural places offer uncluttered views and pristine natural conditions. They offer the ability to walk directly outside a house an experience natural beauty in person. Under Smallocracy, aesthetics seen from the windows are very important. Urban-style mobility Urban places offer car-free access to good and services. Such cities, despite their higher population density, can be more environmentally friendly than suburban places since they usually forced into a limited space, reducing the pollution emitted during commutes. Under Smallocracy, energy savings is made possible with a campus-style transportation system. Suburban-style standard of living Suburban places offer better jobs than rural areas and larger middle-class residences than can be found in the city. Private pools and patios are common in suburban areas. Under Smallocracy, private pools and patios will form on the perimeter of Supermalls and will have ideal viewing conditions of the countryside, beachside, or lakeside. Economic freedom Property rights Vehicles, 1000+ square feet suites, and more can be bought and owned outright. In addition to this, a modifiable basket of durable goods of a prepaid value can be borrowed and kept as long as one wants. For example, one person might purchase the rights (or privledge) to $4,000 dollars worth of computer equipment. At any time, this person may return a computer, monitor etc. and get a different one, as long as they are set below $4,000. Any loss of the fair market value these assets is covered by the supermall's retail sales tax, which brings us to the next section. Finances for the common good Retail sales tax in the supermarkets, restaurants, and clothing stores within the supermall will finance the local government and public goods offered therein. They will also provide public education and the infrastructure that implies, including $1,000 of rights of electronic equipment and instructional training videos for home use. Since there will no need for police cars, fire engines, ambulances, etc. to transport people to medical facilities in the supermalls, the cost of public goods are lowered by a large margin, reducing the costs of public goods. Social opportunity Vocational education All education levels in Smallocracy will be vocational. There will be no specific teacher occupation. Instead, children must learn to prove to their parents, then their local community, that they are worth of certain privileges. When children have displayed capacity in fields such a retail, fire, police, and health, they are capable of learning history and finance. After learning the basics of history and finance, they are ready to learn science and higher mathematics. Teaching a child in this order means that children are taught only as far as their minds can grasp. It also teaches children to love and get along with others before one can support them financially and materially. Graded licenses will immediately indicate eligibility for occupation. For example a manager in retail may need to learn the first tier of subjects (retail, fire, police, and health) in order to correctly provide for retail customers and communicate effectively and professionally with public servicepeople. Semi-retirement community Senior-citizen retirement in the United States is becoming increasingly mobilized. In addition, the Baby Boom generation, which is among the first to have this privilege has largely grown up with a culture that is family centered. Unfortunately, in a time where the average parent in the United States has less than two children, the fraternal relationships of large families has been withering, which means children are having fewer and fewer closely-related role models. Unfortunately, current public education systems place more social emphasis on past popular figures such as George Washington and Napoleon than they do on the parents and the retail and community service workers. Children are very capable of learning public service work, as can be evidenced from programs such as the Girl Scouts of America. The lack of experience with the public workforce has led to social blindness regarding who to go for assistance. The danger of traveling public roads has prevented physical presence between places of assistance (service areas) and places of need (home). However, when Smallocracy rules the land, children with have greater respect and social wisdom which they can use to prolong the life of senior citizens, as well as reduce the costs of health care. Political organization Each Smallocratic supermall will have an ambassador. In addition there will be three secretaries corresponding to the three tiers of education: * Secretary of Social Work. * Secretary of Finance and History. * Secretary of Sciences. Each Smallocratic supermall must be small enough such that the people with clearly the best characteristics can be promoted to secretary simply by the appraise of the community. Therefore, Smallocratic supermalls are not doubled in size individually. Instead, a new Smallocratic mall is created when more people want to live in a Smallocratic society. Each Smallocractic society will have small town status. Connections between smallocratic societies will be linked via monorail along a serene trajectory. Clusters of smallocratic societies will share three hubs, each with a president. These are: * College of Social Work. * College of Finance and History. * College of Sciences. These hubs will be similar to the more residential Smallocratic malls. The difference is they offer places in which technical knowledge, requiring the use of memorization of hundreds of concepts, will be offered to late teenagers and early adults who are capable of increasing the grade of their licenses. Every three hubs will be connected to a University of Arts and Sports. It is from here that access to conventional highway, air, and rail transportation systems and the rest of the US begins. There is no car rental at Smallocratic societies. Instead, one purchases the private rights to a car, or a groups of cars up to some value. One just goes to the parking lot of one's choice, much like entering one of several car dealerships. A special system proprietary to Smallocractic societies scans one's license, which is then used to activate the car desired. Personal cargo can be kept in the vehicle as long as one wants. To transport cargo between the vehicle and the home of the Super Mall citizen, the use of ice coolers, Rubbermaid containers, and other similar shipment methods may be used.
  9. Imagine a company which took half of its profits and converted them to gift cards that can only be used to by its more expensive goods and services. No other company could accept them because they came from the profits and they must go directly to future sales of the company. Part of the future sales involves the gift cards, etc, so therefore a multiplier is involved. Now if production cannot catch up with the increased aggregate demand, that is fine, since the total spending possible from initial sales to the end would be the same as if there were no tax in or on that sales at all, due to the recycling of gift cards.
  10. Yes. There are medical reasons, such the reasons why you shouldn't shout at an old lady's face, or drop a baby from a three story building, even if it prepares you for something else, such as someone doing the same crap to you.
  11. YouTube - RED PILL OR BLUE PILL, LIGHT OR DARK SIDE http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZPXXgI8DUk Detailed Paper http://www.geocities.com/kmar86/Fundamental_Tax_Reform_for_the_United_States_Federal_Government.doc Excel Chart http://www.geocities.com/kmar86/Fundamental_Tax_Reform_for_the_United_States_Federal_Government.xls FairTax? FlatTax? Income Tax? No. None of the above is satisfactory. Why not lower the payroll tax rate as your business spends more money on labor? Why not lower the dividend tax rate as your business earns more profits? These things are possible if taxation was calculated simply as: spending*(sales-spending)/sales From "no spending" up to "spending equal to 100% of sales", the tax goes from 100% of nothing, to nothing of 100%. With the abolition of "traditional" taxation, a business has two choices to eliminate all of its taxes. It can choose a primarily a cost reducing strategy in which it pays less taxes by reducing its costs below 50% of sales. Otherwise, it may choose a labor, land, and capital investment strategy, in which it spends more of the money in excess of 50% of its sales in order to reduce or eliminate taxes. The former is equivalent to subsidizing the business if it is exceptionally strong at making profits, because it would be possible for net profits to rise faster than profits. The latter is equivalent to subsidizing investment in labor, land, and capital in excess of 50% of sales, because it would be possible for spending on these items to rise faster than the company's net profits would fall. Subsidization of profits above 50% of sales: profits=50%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales increases net profits by 11%*sales (10% subsidy) profits=60%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales increases net profits by 13%*sales (30% subsidy) profits=70%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales increases net profits by 15%*sales (50% subsidy) profits=80%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales increases net profits by 17%*sales (70% subsidy) profits=90%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales increases net profits by 19%*sales (90% subsidy) Subsidization of expenses above 50% of sales: expenses=50%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales decreases net profits by 9%*sales (10% subsidy) expenses=60%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales decreases net profits by 7%*sales (30% subsidy) expenses=70%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales decreases net profits by 5%*sales (50% subsidy) expenses=80%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales decreases net profits by 3%*sales (70% subsidy) expenses=90%*sales increased by an additional 10%*sales decreases net profits by 1%*sales (90% subsidy) RATIONAL AGENTS THINK ON THE MARGIN (fact of economics) Encourages average businesses to spend in land, labor, and capital in turn for tax reductions. Encourages businesses with exceptional profits (greater than 50%) to reduce expenses on land, labor, and capital in turn for tax reductions. Absolutely does not tax companies beyond their means. Calculated only one time per business by only knowing the revenues and expenses and absoutely nothing else. Fits on a paper as small as a fortune from a fortune cookie. Has only two variables (e.g. revenues and expenses). Not a direct tax. The tax code is as short as: (R-E)*E/R. Replaces several already existing forms of government by liberalizing tax treatment for low-profit businesses. Stabilizes the stock market by shifting earnings volatility from businesses with low profit margins to business with high profit margins, exactly where they are needed. Does not tax non-profits (or their laborers) when they are in-fact not making profits. Does not tax R&D companies (or their laborers) when they are in-fact not making profits. Redistributes wealth using only tax incentives and not taxes on business expenses such as land, labor, and capital. Does not have anything to do with the highly malleable payroll system.
  12. That's exactly what I want.
  13. Ok. The circle in the middle has an area of pi and a radius of 1. Beyond that, is the first ring. If it has an outer radius of 2 and an inner radius of 1 its area is (2^2 - 1^2)pi or 3 pi. Depending on the model, the population density increases or decreases linearly with radii. Beyond that, is the second ring. If it has an outer radius of 3 and an inner radius of 2 its area is (3^2 - 2^2)pi or 5 pi. Beyond that, is the third ring. If it has an outer radius of 4 and an inner radius of 3 its area is (4^2 - 3^2)pi or 7 pi. So in general, these areas have an approximate population density, which is multiplied by the area's "area" to get the population in that area.
  14. I took the area of the concentric ring at some distance and multiplied it by the population density.
  15. A: Distance from center B: Area at this distance C: Inside-out's population density at this distance D: Outside-in's population density at this distance E: Inside-out's population at this distance F: Outside in's total population A B C D E F 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 1 1 9 1 9 2 3 2 8 6 24 3 6 3 7 18 42 4 10 4 6 40 60 5 15 5 5 75 75 6 21 6 4 126 84 7 28 7 3 196 84 8 36 8 2 288 72 9 45 9 1 405 45 10 55 10 0 550 0 INSIDE-OUT'S TOTAL POPULATION: 1705 OUTSIDE-IN'S TOTAL POPULATION: 495 Assuming that traffic is proportional to population density along the line, I would assume that the traffic delay inside "inside-out" city is not three times as bad.
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