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So Musk himself decribed it as a "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table". So why do people keep talking about tubes ?

Wouldn't a Ground Effect Vehicule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle) fit the descripton better ?

Edit : thought a self powered super-sonic GEV would be hard to pull of.

Until August the 12th at the most.

He didn't say the tube were going to be evacuated did he ? If you are going to put something in the air, evacuationg th lauchpad seem to be a bit pointless.

Hum... How about her gender colors her perspective but is not the issue ?

Gender affect a lot of your environment and your education so you can't escape it's influence. But in this case gender is not a significative parameter in one's perception of Linus and his strong-mouthness.

No because Amazon didn't force plublisher to change price. They used reduced their own margin do be able to sell at that price.

It seems to me that as far as international rules go it's not an "abuse" of power. National airspace is, after all, national. You can refuse entery to a foreign president if you damn well please. (High ranking official have a very limited liberty of movment since every deplacment abroad is subject to authorisation of the receiving country.)

On the other hand once you have authorising them to cross your airspace usually grants them extra-territoriality. Meaning that for an reglementary standpoint you can't force a plane to land and search it. (No suspending authorisation once the plane is in the airspace, and you can't search the plane because it is considered foreign territory.

(note this is what i understand of this matter, and may not be exact)

> In first world countries

Is that a thing outside the US ? I've never heard of it outside of US news.

I'm pretty sure they are people who beleives that in other countries. But do they get media attention like in the US ?

Maybe i'm reading it wrong but I have the impression that the problem here is the notion of forward secrecy.

Forward Secrecy only garanties that given the master keys Eve still can't derive the session key. It says nothing about the scheme used to create the session key (which may not be safe) It only states that even if Eve gets the private key that won't give her any information on the session key. It's the "won't leek any information" part that makes it "Perfect".

"Prefect" is used in the same way in "Perfect Information-Theorical Security" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_security) were the Info-Theoric Security is perfect if the cipher text doesn't leek any information about the plain text.

The use of the word perfect seems consistent to me. The problem is actually understanding what we are talking about and what part of it is Perfect.

Half-Life 2 (or so i remember)

If you look his Orwin Gambit start it would happen. It's because this the first move is done freely so you end up with one area ahead of it's paths (ie full but with only 8 path already taken).

See for yourself : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baremes_de_l_impot_sur_le_reven...

Now you may not understand french but the table is quite understandable. Fist column the brackets, last column the marginal taxe rate.

What don't you understand in "over one million" ?

If you sell it for 1,000,001 the 75% rate only applies to the extra 1. Not the whole 1,000,001 just the 1 that is over the million.

That's what is called a marginal taxe rate. Each tax braket only applies to the money within the backet range.

If you make 1,000,001 the first 6,000 are not taxed and the last one is taxed at 75%. (Or will be if we ever get that).

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Edit : There also seems to be a concensus about selling not being taxed like a salary. I wouldn't know. But there was also quite a debate on whether the taxes on selling companies was to high.

Are marginal tax rates rare ? It alway seems like people don't understand how they work. But i don't see how you could do without them, there would be a strong incentive not to change bracket.