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Quite a few people I know would prefer to travel on an American passport because it offers less hassle than most other passports. We have fewer VISA requirements, etc.
We have somewhat shot ourselves in the foot here or there since we tightened travel restrictions on some countries. But it's still an incredibly good passport to have for traveling.
I've been strongly considering expatriating, either to Canada or even more exotic locations such as Dubai/UAE. I have no real intentions of breaking from the US as a citizen, but perhaps you could clarify for me.
1. I've heard that under a certain tax bracket this does not happen. Is that true? 2. I hear Canada will actually let you write off taxes you've paid to the US.
Sorry dotBen, but you're being a whiney crybaby on here. OH NO, LIBYAN GOVERNMENT DOESN'T RESPECT US RULES!
No shit...
Move on from it. Otherwise go join a political group that fights for women's rights in Libya.
If you need lots of thorium you can usually find a ton of it Winterspring or the Burning Steppes!
As I posted over there:
If I'm studying a particular programming environment, I start with the basics. Usually printing and formatting messages, file I/O, basic calculations, variable usage, method usage. I then combine it all together to make something more coherent. For example, I might learn to add 1 + 1, then I'll print it. Then store in a variable, then learn to manipulate that variable, re-print it, then learn to store it in a file, read and write to that file, and so forth.
The reasons I start out so basic are: These are fundamental concepts I already understand from other languages, so I know what they should do and how they should work; It gets me accustomed to the basic structure of the language. Do they want ( or )? Do they want { or }?; It allows me to get a feel for the flow of logic.
In addition to this, if I'm reading up on a new fundamental topic (I'm a systems/networking engineer by trade), I start out by reading documentation. I read the documentation for multiple platforms, both Windows and Linux. For some stuff it's easier to learn from one or the other. Microsoft generally has better documentation for a Windows user, but sometimes the Linux documentation is easier to grasp the fundamentals first.
I read the documentation for about 1-2 hours per day, put it down, think about it, post comments on it (whether or not I'm right or wrong, but I also ask for feedback). I then read it some more in the next day or the following days.
After I feel like I've got a grasp of how it works, I'll try and implement it to clear up some of the last confusion with it. Depending on how much confusion, I usually jump all the way, but knowing how to tread water first is helpful before drowning :P
As the wikipedia article states, and as the IANA assignments are coming through--you, as your personal self, gets a /48 block. Or rather, your "premises" gets a /48 block. If you're a small business owner with 10 computers, you get a /48 block. If you're a home user, you get a /48 block. If you're a large enterprise business, you get a /48 block.
It's a rather significant waste of addressing and I really wish they had moved it over a few blocks, but that's the current plan. That said, you have to figure.
Right now, for internet alone, we're using only 1/8th the space of the IPv6 address space. The plans are 2000::/3. Which essentially means 2000:: through 3FFF::. that's a rather ridiculous amount of hosts. It comes out to 2^125 hosts. 4.25352959 × 10^37 hosts on the internet. It's unfathomably large. So it doesn't really matter if huge chunks are wasted. You won't ever really use all of it anyway.
I agree that the IPv6 space is ridiculously large, but that's kind of the point. They realized that the internet infrastructure will only continue to grow--and they want to, at all costs, avoid any problem with hitting the limit of addressing at any point in the future. The larger it grows, the more of a problem it will be to change it later on.
I rather like the changes made to Digg. I got tired every day of going to the site and reading things that organizations obviously wanted to digg up for the sake of hitting a larger audience.
Essentially, it boiled down to kind of like trying to get to the top of Google Search rankings. And often times it kind of felt like if you go to Google and type "abortion", you end up finding the front page filled with religious, anti-abortion sites that paid their way to the top.
I prefer the new format since it lets me get news I'm interested in. Nobody can game the system to "reach me".
They re-added the "top news" section if you want something similar to the old Digg style, but the changes overall are for the better.
The only seemingly negative part of the change is the wealth of comments. Many articles now have very few comments. It's a fair trade off though since I was getting extremely tired of the dribble of interest groups trying to pay their way to shut me out of getting information I want to read.
It's a different Digg, and I think the execution and move could have gone better than dumping it on people without significantly announcing the change. They could have retained more users and gotten more support for it if they did just a tad bit of marketing first.
Either way, I like the change and will continue to use the site.
Another good way to ensure that you keep services you absolutely need is to review your credit card/bank details and make sure you're not getting charged for any ghost recurring services.
Or more interestingly, they were looking at providing the best numbers to push their agenda the furthest.
As noted in a previous comment, a fair comparison would be to run a proper benchmark--which guarantees similar operating conditions.
I think this is just a reminder to those that can't push their agendas on the new Digg to not come here and try to push it. Take it somewhere else.
Good riddance.
Specifically, some of the gutteral sounds used in Klingon are sounds that are used in real languages. If you're a native American-English speaker, these sounds do not exist in our language. If someone here is so dedicated to learning Klingon and Star Trek, it might open their ability to A) learn real languages easier, B) to pronounce many of the sounds used in those languages.
You're assuming that every thing that people work on actually needs the potential to become "big".
What about the people that study klingon? Or Esperanto? Or Elvish?
You assume that a person cannot gain something by simply learning something that has no practical purpose. This isn't the case. By working on BF, someone might make some neuron connections that help them with logical thought with other projects, by breaking down logical thinking into very simplistic, basic symbols--completely removing "language" out of the equation.
You just don't know. :P
The school I want to attend here in the states costs $250 per credit hour. A bachelor's degree (4-year) is 120 credit hours. It's $30,000 USD. I know salaries in some parts of the EU are behind the US in terms of buying power within their respective countries, but even at 500 Euros, you're not paying anywhere near like what we're paying for school, even adjusted for your local wages.
For those of us that are left-handed, dvorak is very cumbersome to use. It strongly prefers the right hand for typing, and if your dominant hand is the other--dvorak feels really weird to type with.
Give me a dvorak, but favored for left-handed typers, and I could see it improving my speed. Until then, I can break easily 120wpm in qwerty--I'm not too concerned.