And now with the PT testing scored the way it is, 30% is a straight waist measurement, you have to look pretty in uniform.
I left when it was clear I'd end up being kicked out within a few yeas if I didn't become an anorexic. Contractor pay was initialy better than double what I got as an E-5. Now a few years later my Civilian pay is triple or more than E-5, with better benefits in every way possible.
The Air Force helped me learn some valuable skills and such but I'll probably be just a little bitter for a long time to come over the baloney PT test scoring.
Which is why sales taxes are always heavily regressive on the lower classes. Wealthy people may spend more money than a poorer person but not in a directly proportional manner. Which means that the lower down on the scale of wealth you are the larger the percentage of your income is that goes to sales taxes.
I pretty much agree with what you've said but to me it means that I shouldn't be forcing my children to receive a vaccination which bears it's own set of risks, for something that is likely only to affect them dependant on their own decisions. Yes, they can get it through non-sexual contact but it's much less contagious and deadly than many of the other things that we vaccinate for.
Not sure what they teach anymore but when I was in school anything over 1 whole unit of something was then pluralized.
I have 1 apple.
I have 1 1/2 apples.
Hence any number > 100,000 can be pluralized as hundreds of thousands.
I view this the same way as I do birth control. If my daughter decides to be sexually active I expect her to be proactive about,getting on the pill, having her tubes tied or making sure her partners are actively preventing. It's up to her and I'm not going to insist that she be vaccinated as a small child because I'm afraid she might be promiscous later in life. Her choices and her risks.
Are you kidding me? Try reading up on the Tuskeegee experiment. I think it was Siphilus they told the people they were being vaccinated against, in reality they were deliberately infecting them to see how it would spread and affect the community.
I don't know that all that much CO2 would remain stored underground if the above ground part of the trees were removed. Unless the soil is more clay than dirt decomposition is going to happen and the gases will work their way to the surface or be used up by other plants as nutrients.
The last I heard we thought that the oil deposits were created by organisms, plant and animal, dieing in the ocean. Their remains settled to the seabed at enough depth that cold and hypoxia hampered bacterial decomposition. The layer of dead stuff slowly builds up over centures or millenia and is eventually covered over by other sedimentary layers. Geologic processes eventually turn this layer into Oil Shale. The Oil Shale might at some point be subject to enough pressure and just the right amount of heat to cause it to exude oil, which pools into pockets and becomes readily harvestable via drilling.
Not to mention Diablo2, which still gets patches now and then, has a pretty active userbase on the official servers more than a decade after it's release.
And so far Diablo3 is being touted as an online play only game with no subscription. Although they are doing the microtransaction thing with the real money auction house.
That said I don't mind paying for subscription games now and then. Recently I've been playing Lord of Ultima, which I don't strictly subscribe to but I do pay for ministers on a monthly basis. And even with the taint of pay to win it's the best PvP game I've played in ages. Wins and loses are significant to the rest of your game, and the pacing is such that a win or a loss can be days to months in the making. And the story of the game is all about those campaigns, battles and the accompanying drama.
As someone who went from being a contractor to a civil servant, in a workplace with about a 50:50 mix with 400+ workers I think I can speak to this.
The first year I worked as a contractor I had in my possession a piece of paper I was undoubtedly not supposed to have. It listed all the pertinent details of the contract slot including the $ amount the government was paying for it, $154K. My salary was under 40% of that. Now in this job everything was furnished by the government including equipment and workspace.
When I transitioned to a GS position (doing the exact same things in the same office, in fact at the same desk) I actually received a pay increase of more than 10% to move to the lowest step of the appropriate pay grade for the position. And thanks to the wonders of a pay stub that actually displays all of the governments contributions on my behalf I can see what I cost them above and beyond my salary. All together it comes to a tiny bit over $98K a year.
So by hiring me as a civil servant they saved $56K a year. Not to mention my pay is better, my pay increases are better, I can actually earn significant awards and recognition, vacation is more plentiful, sick time actually exists and accumulates, I get retirement savings matching. The list goes on and on, and I'm still cheaper for the tax payers as a civil servant than as a contractor.
Now of course there are highly skilled geniuses out there that a department might need on an occassional basis, and hiring them as a civil servant wouldn't work. But paying a premium on every single slot to account for that 1% or less is a huge waste.
That's so frustrating to see such cool vehicle limited to such a small production run. Maybe it has something to do with it's $77,000 pricetag, but I'd think mass production could reduce that to maybe as low as 50k.
They implemented a way to respec your skills in the last year or two. I don't know if it applies just to Ladder or not since that's all I play. But when you finish the cave quest in chapter 1 it opens up a respec option with Akara in the Rogue Encampment similiar to Larzuk's Socket quest. So you get three respeccs essentially for free now. And several of the Act bosses drop special essences which can be combined in your cube to make a respec token, which means you can respec to your hearts content so long as you can farm or trade for enough essences or emblems.
Except that making a hachet or ax from flint or obsidian would be completely foolish. The material is too fragile and would self destruct rapidly when put into use. It's much more valuable for making spear and arrow points. For an ax you'd want a fairly flat river stone that you'd grind an edge on. Which would explain why native americans weren't inclined to do a lot of clear cutting. Metal implements like ax heads and knives were very valuable comodoties when the europeans showed up with them.
I'm doing a 9 in 10 schedule. I absolutely love having 26+ three day weekends every year. The extra hour at work most days isn't noticeable like you said. And I can schedule all the things that I'd otherwise need to take time off to do on my day off. So it's saving me vacation/sick leave as well.
The author of War and Peace got bogged down. I had to force myself to finish reading that book. The most impressive thing in the book was that he was able to keep so many characters, with so many different names each, straight because I sure as hell couldn't half the time.
Bought ME 1 on Steam about a year and a half ago. I put in a few hours and gave up on it. The controls were terrible and like others have said the inventory was almost as bad. Wish I could have my $5 back.
Same here. I think I only managed about 20 minutes before I turned it off. To this day it's one of the few movies I didn't finish watching. I don't even know that it was the spoiler that made it bad, it was just really really dull.
Really? I'm using IE7 and there is no special context menu for the back and forward buttons. There is however a small dropdown arrow button next to them which gets a lot of use.
I believe the idea is that it can manuever to avoid whatever countermeasures an enemy may posses. Ballistic missles are launched on and designed to stay on a set trajectory that can not be changed in flight on a split second basis while keeping the same target.
The mechanics of how the drug works should actually make simple virus mutations incredibly unlikely to result in resistance.
The drug is a protien that is triggered by the virus's production of double stranded DNA. Double Stranded DNA is actually how your immune system already recognizes a viral infection, when it's detected it sets of a cascade of events that should ultimately end in the cells elimination. The way most viruses beat the immune system response is by blocking or attacking one or more of the cascaded steps before cell death. This protein shortcuts all of those steps and makes the jump straight from detection of double stranded DNA to triggered cell suicide, there was a fancy word for it that I can't remember.
In short the only mutation that would result in resistance/immunity would be for the virus to no longer cause double stranded DNA to be created. Which is a mutation that likely would have happened already if it's possible, as it would completely avoid the immune systems response.
Funny that you should mention emulating a xbox, as that's what I use for my emulating needs. I spent about four months without the use of a PC for gaming and so bought a premodified xbox. The shop was nice enough to load it up with a wide selection of emulators and roms. I still use it everyonce in awhile to play games with visiting nephews.
Informative, but honestly who is going to need a gallon of invisible ink? And I quail at the thought of "mix it all together with your hands and dip a straw into it and suck it up into the straw"
Why can't we just make a very simple fountain style pen using a twig and pocket knife?
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And now with the PT testing scored the way it is, 30% is a straight waist measurement, you have to look pretty in uniform.
I left when it was clear I'd end up being kicked out within a few yeas if I didn't become an anorexic. Contractor pay was initialy better than double what I got as an E-5. Now a few years later my Civilian pay is triple or more than E-5, with better benefits in every way possible.
The Air Force helped me learn some valuable skills and such but I'll probably be just a little bitter for a long time to come over the baloney PT test scoring.
Which is why sales taxes are always heavily regressive on the lower classes. Wealthy people may spend more money than a poorer person but not in a directly proportional manner. Which means that the lower down on the scale of wealth you are the larger the percentage of your income is that goes to sales taxes.
I pretty much agree with what you've said but to me it means that I shouldn't be forcing my children to receive a vaccination which bears it's own set of risks, for something that is likely only to affect them dependant on their own decisions. Yes, they can get it through non-sexual contact but it's much less contagious and deadly than many of the other things that we vaccinate for.
Not sure what they teach anymore but when I was in school anything over 1 whole unit of something was then pluralized. I have 1 apple. I have 1 1/2 apples. Hence any number > 100,000 can be pluralized as hundreds of thousands.
I view this the same way as I do birth control. If my daughter decides to be sexually active I expect her to be proactive about ,getting on the pill, having her tubes tied or making sure her partners are actively preventing. It's up to her and I'm not going to insist that she be vaccinated as a small child because I'm afraid she might be promiscous later in life. Her choices and her risks.
Are you kidding me? Try reading up on the Tuskeegee experiment. I think it was Siphilus they told the people they were being vaccinated against, in reality they were deliberately infecting them to see how it would spread and affect the community.
I don't know that all that much CO2 would remain stored underground if the above ground part of the trees were removed. Unless the soil is more clay than dirt decomposition is going to happen and the gases will work their way to the surface or be used up by other plants as nutrients.
The last I heard we thought that the oil deposits were created by organisms, plant and animal, dieing in the ocean. Their remains settled to the seabed at enough depth that cold and hypoxia hampered bacterial decomposition. The layer of dead stuff slowly builds up over centures or millenia and is eventually covered over by other sedimentary layers. Geologic processes eventually turn this layer into Oil Shale. The Oil Shale might at some point be subject to enough pressure and just the right amount of heat to cause it to exude oil, which pools into pockets and becomes readily harvestable via drilling.
Not to mention Diablo2, which still gets patches now and then, has a pretty active userbase on the official servers more than a decade after it's release.
And so far Diablo3 is being touted as an online play only game with no subscription. Although they are doing the microtransaction thing with the real money auction house.
That said I don't mind paying for subscription games now and then. Recently I've been playing Lord of Ultima, which I don't strictly subscribe to but I do pay for ministers on a monthly basis. And even with the taint of pay to win it's the best PvP game I've played in ages. Wins and loses are significant to the rest of your game, and the pacing is such that a win or a loss can be days to months in the making. And the story of the game is all about those campaigns, battles and the accompanying drama.
I believe "recently" was 1986 http://www.opm.gov/retire/pre/fers/index.asp
As someone who went from being a contractor to a civil servant, in a workplace with about a 50:50 mix with 400+ workers I think I can speak to this.
The first year I worked as a contractor I had in my possession a piece of paper I was undoubtedly not supposed to have. It listed all the pertinent details of the contract slot including the $ amount the government was paying for it, $154K. My salary was under 40% of that. Now in this job everything was furnished by the government including equipment and workspace.
When I transitioned to a GS position (doing the exact same things in the same office, in fact at the same desk) I actually received a pay increase of more than 10% to move to the lowest step of the appropriate pay grade for the position. And thanks to the wonders of a pay stub that actually displays all of the governments contributions on my behalf I can see what I cost them above and beyond my salary. All together it comes to a tiny bit over $98K a year.
So by hiring me as a civil servant they saved $56K a year. Not to mention my pay is better, my pay increases are better, I can actually earn significant awards and recognition, vacation is more plentiful, sick time actually exists and accumulates, I get retirement savings matching. The list goes on and on, and I'm still cheaper for the tax payers as a civil servant than as a contractor.
Now of course there are highly skilled geniuses out there that a department might need on an occassional basis, and hiring them as a civil servant wouldn't work. But paying a premium on every single slot to account for that 1% or less is a huge waste.
That's so frustrating to see such cool vehicle limited to such a small production run. Maybe it has something to do with it's $77,000 pricetag, but I'd think mass production could reduce that to maybe as low as 50k.
Those would have to be some super strong depends to contain the poo at 10Gs.
They implemented a way to respec your skills in the last year or two. I don't know if it applies just to Ladder or not since that's all I play. But when you finish the cave quest in chapter 1 it opens up a respec option with Akara in the Rogue Encampment similiar to Larzuk's Socket quest. So you get three respeccs essentially for free now. And several of the Act bosses drop special essences which can be combined in your cube to make a respec token, which means you can respec to your hearts content so long as you can farm or trade for enough essences or emblems.
Except that making a hachet or ax from flint or obsidian would be completely foolish. The material is too fragile and would self destruct rapidly when put into use. It's much more valuable for making spear and arrow points. For an ax you'd want a fairly flat river stone that you'd grind an edge on. Which would explain why native americans weren't inclined to do a lot of clear cutting. Metal implements like ax heads and knives were very valuable comodoties when the europeans showed up with them.
I'm doing a 9 in 10 schedule. I absolutely love having 26+ three day weekends every year. The extra hour at work most days isn't noticeable like you said. And I can schedule all the things that I'd otherwise need to take time off to do on my day off. So it's saving me vacation/sick leave as well.
Nitpick:
The author of War and Peace got bogged down. I had to force myself to finish reading that book. The most impressive thing in the book was that he was able to keep so many characters, with so many different names each, straight because I sure as hell couldn't half the time.
Bought ME 1 on Steam about a year and a half ago. I put in a few hours and gave up on it. The controls were terrible and like others have said the inventory was almost as bad. Wish I could have my $5 back.
Same here. I think I only managed about 20 minutes before I turned it off. To this day it's one of the few movies I didn't finish watching. I don't even know that it was the spoiler that made it bad, it was just really really dull.
Really? I'm using IE7 and there is no special context menu for the back and forward buttons. There is however a small dropdown arrow button next to them which gets a lot of use.
I believe the idea is that it can manuever to avoid whatever countermeasures an enemy may posses. Ballistic missles are launched on and designed to stay on a set trajectory that can not be changed in flight on a split second basis while keeping the same target.
The mechanics of how the drug works should actually make simple virus mutations incredibly unlikely to result in resistance.
The drug is a protien that is triggered by the virus's production of double stranded DNA. Double Stranded DNA is actually how your immune system already recognizes a viral infection, when it's detected it sets of a cascade of events that should ultimately end in the cells elimination. The way most viruses beat the immune system response is by blocking or attacking one or more of the cascaded steps before cell death. This protein shortcuts all of those steps and makes the jump straight from detection of double stranded DNA to triggered cell suicide, there was a fancy word for it that I can't remember.
In short the only mutation that would result in resistance/immunity would be for the virus to no longer cause double stranded DNA to be created. Which is a mutation that likely would have happened already if it's possible, as it would completely avoid the immune systems response.
Funny that you should mention emulating a xbox, as that's what I use for my emulating needs. I spent about four months without the use of a PC for gaming and so bought a premodified xbox. The shop was nice enough to load it up with a wide selection of emulators and roms. I still use it everyonce in awhile to play games with visiting nephews.
Zing, successfully trolled :(
Informative, but honestly who is going to need a gallon of invisible ink? And I quail at the thought of "mix it all together with your hands and dip a straw into it and suck it up into the straw"
Why can't we just make a very simple fountain style pen using a twig and pocket knife?
Has no one managed to publish a crack to allow LAN play?