I know someone who used to stay late at work playing video games on his computer, and get payed overtime. If that wasn't enough, they saw his long hours as dedication to the cause and enrolled him in their management training program. He is now driving a brand new Tesla, owns two palatial homes and a nice boat.
If you are heating your house when the weather is cool, you can pretty well ignore energy expended by your computer, TV, range etc. as it's just going to be made up by your heating system. On the other hand, if you are using your AC to cool you're going to pay twice. Once in the device, and again to extract the heat from your house.
If we are going to be precise about this we need to consider relative cost of electricity vs. heating fuel and other factors, of course, but the above is close enough for government work.
Some years back I purchased a used bottom-of-the-line Ford Taurus with ABS brakes. Just a week or so later it snowed. On the way to work, a pickup with a long trailer blew through the stop sign on my left and cut right in front of me. There was no time for fancy footwork. I hit the brakes, and braced myself for the crash. Instead, the car came to a straight line stop almost as if on dry pavement. All I suffered was a glare from the asshole as though I had tried to spoil his day. I learned to drive in Anchorage AK, so I know a little about snow.
In another incident, I am doing thirty-five downtown in the left lane of a one way when a deer(!!) jumps out from between parked cars perhaps 20 feet ahead of me. I jump on the brakes, and the car comes to a controlled stop a couple of feet shy of the deer that incidentally gives me that same glare.
Needless to say, I'm thoroughly sold on ABS brakes.
Brings to mind the Pakistani that I had for "Statastics and Probablity" [sic]. 10 problems on the final. I got a zero. Then I explained to him why each of my answers was correct and each of his was wrong. Little details like selection "with replacement" vs. "without replacement". He gave me a "B".
On the other hand, I remember a fourth grade girl in a village in Vietnam working on her Algebra homework, the same material my brother was working on in high school back in the states.
I think one of the best teachers I had in high school was Frank Odle. This old geezer was in his 70's. He had been the area's first High School principal in 1919 and was still going strong in the late 50's. I didn't appreciate him till I took College Algebra in College form a young hot-shot that managed to make what had seemed so easy so difficult.
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I know someone who used to stay late at work playing video games on his computer, and get payed overtime. If that wasn't enough, they saw his long hours as dedication to the cause and enrolled him in their management training program. He is now driving a brand new Tesla, owns two palatial homes and a nice boat.
Exactly.
Or "in bed."
Reminds me of an old IT cartoon. "You guys start coding, and I'll go see what they want."
Don't us a pair of quarters as electrodes, and don't ask how I know this.
But . . . Soros.
Oddly, where I've worked, the CEOs were largely irrelevant.
If you are heating your house when the weather is cool, you can pretty well ignore energy expended by your computer, TV, range etc. as it's just going to be made up by your heating system. On the other hand, if you are using your AC to cool you're going to pay twice. Once in the device, and again to extract the heat from your house. If we are going to be precise about this we need to consider relative cost of electricity vs. heating fuel and other factors, of course, but the above is close enough for government work.
And if the pilot had not returned for his radio, how would it have turned out then?
Some years back I purchased a used bottom-of-the-line Ford Taurus with ABS brakes. Just a week or so later it snowed. On the way to work, a pickup with a long trailer blew through the stop sign on my left and cut right in front of me. There was no time for fancy footwork. I hit the brakes, and braced myself for the crash. Instead, the car came to a straight line stop almost as if on dry pavement. All I suffered was a glare from the asshole as though I had tried to spoil his day. I learned to drive in Anchorage AK, so I know a little about snow. In another incident, I am doing thirty-five downtown in the left lane of a one way when a deer(!!) jumps out from between parked cars perhaps 20 feet ahead of me. I jump on the brakes, and the car comes to a controlled stop a couple of feet shy of the deer that incidentally gives me that same glare. Needless to say, I'm thoroughly sold on ABS brakes.
Brings to mind the Pakistani that I had for "Statastics and Probablity" [sic]. 10 problems on the final. I got a zero. Then I explained to him why each of my answers was correct and each of his was wrong. Little details like selection "with replacement" vs. "without replacement". He gave me a "B".
On the other hand, I remember a fourth grade girl in a village in Vietnam working on her Algebra homework, the same material my brother was working on in high school back in the states.
I think one of the best teachers I had in high school was Frank Odle. This old geezer was in his 70's. He had been the area's first High School principal in 1919 and was still going strong in the late 50's. I didn't appreciate him till I took College Algebra in College form a young hot-shot that managed to make what had seemed so easy so difficult.
Kinda like when, out of curiosity, I stuck my finger in the coax connected to the business of our microwave transmitter back in Vietnam. YOW!
Russia would have had the atom bomb much sooner had not Stalin been convinced the information his people were receiving was deliberate misinformation.
Wow! You're really fascinated by this ass beating stuff, aren't you?