What is "1% tax of 3.8%"? There is still a $500K exemption for capital gains from home sales. Expect the Democrats to come after that next. My house doesn't close until next year but I'm also taking a $30K loss, which is not deductible. Gains count. Losses, not so much.
They got a "share". It was called "Reconstruction" (AKA bend over).
They remember, alright.
It's the government. You want them to follow the rules?
That was only the beginning.
It's not just the deep South, though. I think it's more of the South's roots are agricultural rather then industrial; more individual rather than collective.
Minnesota always surprised me, though it's like most states with a large, dominate, city. Cities are more collective. If that isn't offset, it becomes an infinite money sink as people vote themselves money, to be taken from others.
Yep. The exemption. I don't know of the "1% tax of 3.8%"... whaazit? ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Remember when bubble memory was in use? How did that technology fare as it aged? Is bubble memory still made for some reason?
It went away because it was too slow, too weird, had serial access, and didn't scale well to smaller geometries.
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Sure. I worked on some boards using bubble memories.
It didn't age at all. It died an early death - stillborn in fact. May it stay dead.
No, it is not made, for many reasons. Diskettes (remember those?) killed it. And then were in turn killed by USB.
One description said it was like a rotating disk memory except the platter stayed still while the information rotated around it. It didn't have to be round at all. Sounds a bit like a magnetic core memory.
Not at all. The magnetic domains actually moved (more like charge movement in a DRAM - or better example, a CCD).
Not misleading at all. The bubbles were magnetic domains and were easily seen bumping around like bubbles on the top of a fish tank (in polarized light - sorta like an LCD).
Multi-track was also done. It was a dumber idea, though, because it was way too slow to begin with. Making half as slow didn't solve anything.
It was way too expensive to survive. I worked on it and it was fun but I knew it was going to be a short project. It was a crazy idea.
Even crazier was logic done with bubbles. It was good for a pile of patents, though.
It did survive, for a while, in space applications. The technology is quite rad-hard.
Years ago some friends of mine and I used to sit around trying to think up the craziest things that could actually work (at least in some fashion). One of them was a computer networking technology that would ship serial ASCII data around on garden hoses, using ultrasonic transducers as receive and transmit elements. Never got around to it, but it had a fair chance of working -- I think.
Jon
Hey, I've actually seen mercury delay lines used for registers on older computers like the PB-250.
And then being the Bell System history buff tha I am I love that they used barrier grid, flying spot, and other way esoteric memory systems on the first fully electronic switching system.
That gradually morphed to core and twistor but that's another time.
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