I forgive them everything.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
Looks like it's crashing.
Graf Zeppelin over Wembley Stadium in 1930 during the final FA cup. Arsenal vs Huddersfield Town
What a stare
Salvador Dali and Man Ray in Paris, 1934. Salvador Dali looks like he would be quite the handful of mischief, and Man Ray way too intense.
The Mars rover Curiosity sends back some new and impressive photos
Mt. Sharp, and a rocky tableland in the foreground. Looks like you could jump out and roam off across the landscape.
To date, the odometer stands a 5.3 kilometers, and the rover's cameras have taken over 125,000 images, if you can believe that.
Perhaps some good news on our environment
New research suggests that 95% of the fish live in the central ocean, which were previously considered deserts.
Let's hope this is true.
Let's hope this is true.
"Prof Duarte says research into the five ocean gyres, where vast amounts of flotsam collect, turned up surprising results.
"We actually called them oceanic deserts," he says.
"They are not desert at all, they are very vibrant ecosystems that support a very high biomass.
"The largest fish stock in the ocean is not in the coastal areas … but actually in the central gyres of the oceans.
"The food web … in the central gyres of the ocean … it's a lot more efficient than we thought."
He says the survey also showed the oceans were healthier than previously thought.
"This very large stock of fish that we have just discovered, that holds 95 per cent of all the fish biomass in the world, is untouched by fishers," he says.
"They can't harvest them with nets.
"In the 21st Century we have still a pristine stock of fish which happens to be 95 per cent of all the fish in oceans.
"And that also changes our views on ocean health."
Heh,heh
The kid decided to go down to the trail cam and retrieve the chip. Since it has rained a lot, the gully was full to the brim, and he, being a youth and full of vim and vigor, decided he'd take a running start and vault the creek.
As he told me later, the ground had become soggy, and when he hit the far bank, instead of bouncing up and onward, he sunk in and fell back. Naturally, this activity triggered the trail cam to shoot a picture, and it was just about the exact second he hit the bank.
Heh. The older and more experienced among us would have simply slogged through. Less loss of dignity that way. :-)
Sunday, March 2, 2014
It was inevitable
Couple who found the largest hoard of gold coins in US history, worth 10 million, will owe almost half to the feds and to California in tax.
They should have simply sold them off quietly, one by one, instead of making the papers. I guess the million dollar coin would be hard to sell without the IRS knowing, but please, the government has no moral right whatsoever to demand a cut of something like this. Obviously, they have their law, but half?
This is how tax avoidance becomes ingrained in the culture, as it is in Italy, as rules like this have no moral basis, but rather simply exhibit the government's greed to get something from everything, like the mob.
But hey, we middle class will pay like good citizens, and "our" government will continue to spend it all, and then borrow all they can and spend that, until collapse. Writing the check would be a lot easier if our so called public servants actually used the money wisely.
I guy I work with unexpectedly won an all expenses paid trip to LA to see a well known TV show last year. It wasn't a show he watched or really wanted to see, but hey, it was all paid for. Then he realized that just like the gold coins, he would be liable for the tax on the fair market value of the whole thing, which he calculated at about 1500 bucks. To the shock of the contest organizers, he declined to accept. After all, why go all the way to LA and go to a show you don't really like, and pay 1500 bucks for the "privilege?" Another pernicious effect of the all demanding tax code.
They should have simply sold them off quietly, one by one, instead of making the papers. I guess the million dollar coin would be hard to sell without the IRS knowing, but please, the government has no moral right whatsoever to demand a cut of something like this. Obviously, they have their law, but half?
This is how tax avoidance becomes ingrained in the culture, as it is in Italy, as rules like this have no moral basis, but rather simply exhibit the government's greed to get something from everything, like the mob.
But hey, we middle class will pay like good citizens, and "our" government will continue to spend it all, and then borrow all they can and spend that, until collapse. Writing the check would be a lot easier if our so called public servants actually used the money wisely.
I guy I work with unexpectedly won an all expenses paid trip to LA to see a well known TV show last year. It wasn't a show he watched or really wanted to see, but hey, it was all paid for. Then he realized that just like the gold coins, he would be liable for the tax on the fair market value of the whole thing, which he calculated at about 1500 bucks. To the shock of the contest organizers, he declined to accept. After all, why go all the way to LA and go to a show you don't really like, and pay 1500 bucks for the "privilege?" Another pernicious effect of the all demanding tax code.
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