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So, I've been using Quickbooks Pro for a year now, and because I'm a linux user, I have to boot up an XP virtual machine in VirtualBox to use it. That was fine since I often have to take this route, but recently I found out that having the quickbooks file live on my linux drives, and be accessible from virtualbox causes some issues because virtuabox mounts the linux drives as network shares and quickbooks doesn't like that at all. Customer Support said my only option to share a file in Linux to windows machines is to buy their Enterprise software, which costs $5000.

The making of James Bond Jr.

I got this idea to make a movie with sean a few weeks ago. Sean likes performing and I like making videos, so I proposed making a movie to him yesterday and we both got excited to do it. First we started brainstorming up the plot.

Then after we got a sense of what was going to happen, we storyboarded our idea into the individual shots. I sketched it, and Sean colored it in.

Filming

Version 2 called "Mendel" is almost out, which has significant advancements such as much smaller size and better reliability. A "mother" rep-rap can actually generate the majority of the parts needed to make a new one. Both the rep-rap hardware and the software used to interface with the computer to design and print the 3D objects are open source. Right now the remaining parts will run you $500 USD. Sounds like a great project, that would actually allow you to make new projects, and new rep-raps!

"INL chemist Bob Fox and his colleagues at Idaho State University have invented a way to make extremely precise, uniform nanoparticles to order. The breakthrough could help make solar cells more efficient and speed the development of nanotechnology."

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Soldier tells a story of how his experiences in Iraq have changed how he perceives himself and the world around him.http://homefires.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/revelations-of-a-mere-mortal

So I think you could represent the current tax structure more convincingly if you represented the tax payment as 2 divided taxes. One is a redistribution tax (which could be refundable), the others are per person payments info each gov't program. We all pay the same tax then, but may pay with them from possible income from our redistribution taxes. This would make it easier to come to consensus on each topic separately.
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Debt $38,785.57

Pop 304,059,724

Social Security = 612 billion = 2K per person

Defense = 613 B = 200 = 600 per person

Discretionary = 520 B = 1200 per

Wiliam's TED Video from when he was 19 with pictures of his home and the windmill.

At 14 years old, this guy built a windmill in rural Africa to help his family and village generate electricity. He figured out how to do it with by gathering info from a local library. While an amazing story in itself, the most striking thing to me was at the end of his Daily Show interview, John Stewart asks [at 6:30]:

"When you think about the scarcity of resources, how tenacious you had to be, and then you come here [to the US], and we have mini-fridges... is the excess shocking, or is it easy to get used to?"

William's response really floored me:

"It was shocking, but the best thing i noticed... when I went to the [TED] Conference, (and I had never used a computer), somebody said, "do you know the internet?" ... I said, "No" ... They said, "Do you know google?" And I said "What kind of animal is Google?"

He told him what Google was and that you could google anything, so he asked them to google "windmill" which returned millions of pages of information that would have been so valuable in his project. William lamented, "Where was this Google all this time?!"

What a novel idea, teaching kids the things they are interested in, and making then a part of the process :P