Don't oversize your system. This isn't a money making adventure. Unless you have time and date metering, they are just checking your meter once a month. If it moves forward, you pay. Backwards, they do. The wholesale/retail problem would only come into effect when you're trying to carry over from month to month.
This varies from state to state. Some states excess power moves the meter back, other states you have a seperate meter for sold power. Some states the power companies don't have to pay you anything.
The largest surge of traffic is going to occur when the site first becomes available to non-subscribers. In other words, if the site lives past the first 2-3 comments, it'll probably stay up.
That still doesn't make it a "victim of the dot com bust." A victim would be a company with an otherwise viable business model that got nailed by, for example, the sudden collapse of online ad rates, or the unwillingness of investors to fund any online enterprise. It was merely a victim of it's own stupidity.
Look, whether or not it would be a good idea in theory, there's no way to make it work in practice. There's nothing stopping Microsoft from using the data of pirated computers to track down and prosecute those pirates. So if you have a cracked version, you'd be an idiot to get updates through Microsoft. And there's no way they're going to go through the expense of setting up a seperate, anonymous distribution channel just for pirates.
It seems to me that people living a long time ago were more likely to assign emotional value to objects and hand things down in their families.
Part of this is just that things are getting cheaper, and because we move around more. People didn't have the option before of buying cheap particle board furniture. People didn't used to move from one city to another half a dozen times in their lives. Handmade items are becoming too expensive (in terms of opportunity cost of labor) for people to make them anymore. All of this makes buying expensive furniture, and passing it on to one's children, less useful or practical.
Okay, maybe I exaggerated a bit. But have a look at a list of 1st season episodes. Most of them have only one or two really good jokes (Crepes of Wrath with the Albanian child spy, the electrocution scene you mention from the family therapy episode), and there are plenty of episodes that are just plain bad (Telltale Head, Christmas Special). There's no way you're telling me that the Simpsons had declined by, say, season 6 (Itchy and Scratchy Land, Bart vs. Australia, and Two Dozen and One Greyhouds, to name a few). So if the move to record voices seperately was done by then, it cannot be an explanation for why the Simpsons is less funny now.
Well, first off, the very early episodes really sucked, so we'd have to know which season they switched to say whether it was bad or not. Second, a lot of the conversations are between two voices done by the same actor: Snake and Wiggam, Mr. Burns and Mr. Smithers, and so forth. There's only, what, 6 or so voice actors for a couple dozen characters?
Sorry, but I don't consider that "breaking the continuous upgrade cycle." I just call that "being reasonable. The folks you work with on Pentium IIs, now THEY have broken the continuous upgrade cycle.
If you're going to die in a few months though, couldn't you just go into MORE debt knowing that you'd never have to pay it off? I suppose you couldn't go into $60 million worth of debt, but at least a couple 10's of thousands should be no problem. Of course, if you ANNOUNCE that the asteroid is coming, then no one will lend anyone money, so it's kind of a catch-22 I guess.
Opining that a war isn't maybe a good idea, or that the current administration is incompetent to run a war - not treason. Broadcasting anti-US propaganda on behalf of the enemy, ala Tokyo Rose - treason.
What's the distinction here? Both people are stating in a public forum that the war is bad. Is the difference who's paying your salary? By that definition, did Jane Fonda commit treason? She wasn't being paid, so that would seem to indicate "no." I think the guy's got a good point, calling someone a traitor, be they corporate CEOs, politicians, or private citizens, is directly contrary to the nature of a free society.
Yeh but for most Democracy is just synonym for Capitolism
Heh, would Capitolism be a system whereby unaccountable elites in the capitol govern the country? I actually kind of like that term:) But I think the word you were looking for was Capitalism. Capital is money, capitol is the seat of government (a mneumonic that may help: an o is round, like the domes on many government buildings).
All of the accounts I've heard from former Vietnam POWs say that everyone broke evetually. Those that didn't break were probably tortured to death and we don't have their accounts. So if he's claiming that they never broke him, in the absence of any 3rd party evidence, then his credibility has already taken a nose dive in my mind. Moreover, if he's equating not breaking with retaining his honor, that's even worse, and is an insult to all the other men who went through hell for years on end.
That's contract, not law. It's the same reason why if you want to use reproductions of artwork, you have to contact the museum that owns the piece. The piece is no longer copyrighted, but so long as the museum can effectively control access, they can be sure that any reproductions ARE copyrighted, and the copyright is assigned to themselves.
Oh, I blipped over the one time password part. That's just stupid. They ought to just get a permanent password in the mail or something. And by calling that number they are automatically authorizing the receipt of TTY calls to their number, so non-deaf people can call them.
Or maybe it still wouldn't work on a practical level, I'm really not that familiar with the situation. Still, it does seem like there ought to be a better solution than a blacklist.
I wasn't aware that deafness impaired pressing buttons on a keypad. How would they use TTY if they can't type?
I suppose there's a risk that they wouldn't know if they'd dialed a wrong number, and therefore might start keying in their login/pin at an incorrect number. Scammers would likely start registering all of the one-off numbers around that 800 number. Plenty of phones these days do display the number as you dial it though, so that's not insurmountable.
A quick CNN search turned up this. Not an "all time" low, but a drop anyway. Generally speaking, teen behavior has been improving by virtually every measure (pregnancy, drug use, violence) for decades.
Hmm, doing some quick google searches, I'm coming up with about 120 grams for a 9mm pistol round, and a muzzle velocity of up to 1200 feet/second (366 m/s). 0.12 x 366^2 = about 26,000 Joules, or 6.2 kcals. Enough to cause a lot of damage if focused on a very small point, but not a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. Put in perspective, that's about enough energy to raise your body temperature 1/10th of a degree (Celsius).
With a full suit of this stuff it was possible to fall off a small building and land on your head. You'd be jostled and have a mild concussion, but you'd be alive and able to walk away in one piece.
How so? The way I see it, if the head portion goes rigid, all that's happening is that instead of landing on the concrete, you're "landing" on your rigid suit. The kinetic energy is still transferred through to your skull, you still splatter. You did mention padding on the inside of the suit, which would help, but it's the padding that's helping, not the armor.
What the suit would be useful for are attacks with little overall kinetic energy, like a bullet. Bullets have so little energy that a person shot in the chest is as likely to fall forward as backwards. So when the suit goes rigid, the force is distributed across the front of your body, leaving you unharmed.
Thank you, sir. You took the words right out of my mouth. Note that in The Magnificent Seven, the plot was changed from seeking out warriors to seeking weapons (and the villagers are subsequently convinced taht hiring warriors would be a better idea), because the Mexican government was concerned that Mexicans would look weak if they needed Americans to protect them.
We're going a bit off topic, but don't most states impose escalating penalties for repeat infractions? So if you get half a dozen speeding tickets in a year (or whatever), your license is suspended. Sure, the first 5 tickets might not matter as much to a rich person, but the government is not exactly standing idly by either. Tickets based on income seem to be to be a bit too invasive, I don't want cops looking at my last tax return anytime I get pulled over. Also, wouldn't this create a huge incentive for police to target rich people for tickets, because the department would get more money?
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This varies from state to state. Some states excess power moves the meter back, other states you have a seperate meter for sold power. Some states the power companies don't have to pay you anything.
The largest surge of traffic is going to occur when the site first becomes available to non-subscribers. In other words, if the site lives past the first 2-3 comments, it'll probably stay up.
That still doesn't make it a "victim of the dot com bust." A victim would be a company with an otherwise viable business model that got nailed by, for example, the sudden collapse of online ad rates, or the unwillingness of investors to fund any online enterprise. It was merely a victim of it's own stupidity.
Look, whether or not it would be a good idea in theory, there's no way to make it work in practice. There's nothing stopping Microsoft from using the data of pirated computers to track down and prosecute those pirates. So if you have a cracked version, you'd be an idiot to get updates through Microsoft. And there's no way they're going to go through the expense of setting up a seperate, anonymous distribution channel just for pirates.
Part of this is just that things are getting cheaper, and because we move around more. People didn't have the option before of buying cheap particle board furniture. People didn't used to move from one city to another half a dozen times in their lives. Handmade items are becoming too expensive (in terms of opportunity cost of labor) for people to make them anymore. All of this makes buying expensive furniture, and passing it on to one's children, less useful or practical.
Okay, maybe I exaggerated a bit. But have a look at a list of 1st season episodes. Most of them have only one or two really good jokes (Crepes of Wrath with the Albanian child spy, the electrocution scene you mention from the family therapy episode), and there are plenty of episodes that are just plain bad (Telltale Head, Christmas Special). There's no way you're telling me that the Simpsons had declined by, say, season 6 (Itchy and Scratchy Land, Bart vs. Australia, and Two Dozen and One Greyhouds, to name a few). So if the move to record voices seperately was done by then, it cannot be an explanation for why the Simpsons is less funny now.
Well, first off, the very early episodes really sucked, so we'd have to know which season they switched to say whether it was bad or not. Second, a lot of the conversations are between two voices done by the same actor: Snake and Wiggam, Mr. Burns and Mr. Smithers, and so forth. There's only, what, 6 or so voice actors for a couple dozen characters?
Sorry, but I don't consider that "breaking the continuous upgrade cycle." I just call that "being reasonable. The folks you work with on Pentium IIs, now THEY have broken the continuous upgrade cycle.
San Francisco has a big inferiority complex with respect to Los Angeles. Just like Brown has toward Harvard, or the rest of the world has with the US.
If you're going to die in a few months though, couldn't you just go into MORE debt knowing that you'd never have to pay it off? I suppose you couldn't go into $60 million worth of debt, but at least a couple 10's of thousands should be no problem. Of course, if you ANNOUNCE that the asteroid is coming, then no one will lend anyone money, so it's kind of a catch-22 I guess.
What the hell are you talking about? Cyclists are DISALLOWED from riding on the sidewalks. That doesn't mean they don't do it anyway though...
What's the distinction here? Both people are stating in a public forum that the war is bad. Is the difference who's paying your salary? By that definition, did Jane Fonda commit treason? She wasn't being paid, so that would seem to indicate "no." I think the guy's got a good point, calling someone a traitor, be they corporate CEOs, politicians, or private citizens, is directly contrary to the nature of a free society.
Heh, would Capitolism be a system whereby unaccountable elites in the capitol govern the country? I actually kind of like that term :) But I think the word you were looking for was Capitalism. Capital is money, capitol is the seat of government (a mneumonic that may help: an o is round, like the domes on many government buildings).
All of the accounts I've heard from former Vietnam POWs say that everyone broke evetually. Those that didn't break were probably tortured to death and we don't have their accounts. So if he's claiming that they never broke him, in the absence of any 3rd party evidence, then his credibility has already taken a nose dive in my mind. Moreover, if he's equating not breaking with retaining his honor, that's even worse, and is an insult to all the other men who went through hell for years on end.
That's contract, not law. It's the same reason why if you want to use reproductions of artwork, you have to contact the museum that owns the piece. The piece is no longer copyrighted, but so long as the museum can effectively control access, they can be sure that any reproductions ARE copyrighted, and the copyright is assigned to themselves.
Or maybe it still wouldn't work on a practical level, I'm really not that familiar with the situation. Still, it does seem like there ought to be a better solution than a blacklist.
I wasn't aware that deafness impaired pressing buttons on a keypad. How would they use TTY if they can't type?
I suppose there's a risk that they wouldn't know if they'd dialed a wrong number, and therefore might start keying in their login/pin at an incorrect number. Scammers would likely start registering all of the one-off numbers around that 800 number. Plenty of phones these days do display the number as you dial it though, so that's not insurmountable.
A quick CNN search turned up this. Not an "all time" low, but a drop anyway. Generally speaking, teen behavior has been improving by virtually every measure (pregnancy, drug use, violence) for decades.
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. The cusioning on the inside of the armor would help protect, but a rigid suit would not.
Hmm, doing some quick google searches, I'm coming up with about 120 grams for a 9mm pistol round, and a muzzle velocity of up to 1200 feet/second (366 m/s). 0.12 x 366^2 = about 26,000 Joules, or 6.2 kcals. Enough to cause a lot of damage if focused on a very small point, but not a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. Put in perspective, that's about enough energy to raise your body temperature 1/10th of a degree (Celsius).
How so? The way I see it, if the head portion goes rigid, all that's happening is that instead of landing on the concrete, you're "landing" on your rigid suit. The kinetic energy is still transferred through to your skull, you still splatter. You did mention padding on the inside of the suit, which would help, but it's the padding that's helping, not the armor.
What the suit would be useful for are attacks with little overall kinetic energy, like a bullet. Bullets have so little energy that a person shot in the chest is as likely to fall forward as backwards. So when the suit goes rigid, the force is distributed across the front of your body, leaving you unharmed.
Thank you, sir. You took the words right out of my mouth. Note that in The Magnificent Seven, the plot was changed from seeking out warriors to seeking weapons (and the villagers are subsequently convinced taht hiring warriors would be a better idea), because the Mexican government was concerned that Mexicans would look weak if they needed Americans to protect them.
I dunno, I think he probably could have held his own against Crom.
We're going a bit off topic, but don't most states impose escalating penalties for repeat infractions? So if you get half a dozen speeding tickets in a year (or whatever), your license is suspended. Sure, the first 5 tickets might not matter as much to a rich person, but the government is not exactly standing idly by either. Tickets based on income seem to be to be a bit too invasive, I don't want cops looking at my last tax return anytime I get pulled over. Also, wouldn't this create a huge incentive for police to target rich people for tickets, because the department would get more money?
Who cares who was funding it? That site is hilarious, and side talking is stupid. Side talking would still be stupid even if that site did not exist.