I school we were allowed up to 20 days in a year as sick time. I always took as many as I was allowed. While I was in the military I only ever had one week of sick leave, when they stole my damn wisdom teeth. And in all my civilian jobs I have taken less than one week total in four years as sick time. Although my company just took away our week of sick leave and gave us two extra vacation days:(
And of course I count in Summer Vacation. What I wouldn't give to take a three month vacation every year from work.
I quit WoW probably close to a year ago. I didn't quit because the game was horrible or anything but rather because I got tired of it and I didn't have the large time chunks to dedicate to it that I once did.
Since I stopped playing WoW I played through Portal, Halflife 2 and all it's sequels, Warhammer Online for a few months, Diablo 2 for a few months with some old friends, and now I'm enjoying Atlantica Online. There may not be another game out there that is exactly like WoW, but there are plenty of games that are just as good in their own right. If someone wants a WoW that's awesomer for them they should run an emulation server and cater to their own interests. It's not any game companies responsibility to make a game just exactly to a specific players taste.
Well actually I spend way more time in a year at work than I ever did at school.
And amusingly enough I take far less sick days from work than I did from school, probably has something to do with getting a more immediate reward in the form of a paycheck.
That's not actually true. The game has changed a lot since it was originally released. The difficulty of the end game has come down by a lot. The exp and hence time required to level has been reduced by a ton, meaning even fewer of the quests in any given area get finished now. Many classes have changed in their overall ability and utility.
That said, the changes aren't all negative depending on your perspective. If you liked being among the hardcore elite that finished Naxx when it was a 40 man I can understand the feeling that the game has gone down hilll since then. If you were more casual than that you probably appreciate the better access to the end game content your gaming dollars have paid for.
In the end it will always be a matter of opinion whether or not a game is better or worse than it used to be.
If exercise is a stress relief to you then you are just an exercise junky. Playing a sport for entertainment can qualify as a stress relief for me so long as it's a fair and challenging game. But just regular PT usually just gets me mad at the world.
Maybe I should try it again now that I am out of the Chair Force and any PT would be strictly voluntary on my part. But while I was in I was constantly struggling to pass the next PT test, the part I couldn't ever do well on was waist size. PT was always exhausting and enraging, it never seemed to make a difference that mattered and was painful as hell.
I still love video games, just hit 30. My problem now is finding time and money to afford playing them. Between church commitments, honey do lists, hobby activities with the wife, soon time with children, and of course the ever present job that pays for everything I can get in maybe an average of two hours a day.
Differences in metabolism are rather well established I thought.
Anyways there are other things that affect weight gain and loss other than metabolism that are wide spread. Like Sleep Apnea. I remember seeing somewhere that as much as 45% of the US population has it to some degree or another. And before you go blaming obesity for sleep apnea that's been shown to be an aggravator and not a cause.
Oh the comedy of people with less efficient digestion or metabolism being healthier.
Personally mine is very efficient on both fronts. When I was in the US Chair Force I was on a fat kid program for close to six months before I managed to test out of it. The only reason I passed was that I wore a neoprene belt under a weight belt cinched as tight as it would go, for 10 hours before being measured. That was my last resort after tightly controlling and recording my food intake, and doing aerobic exercise at least 45 minutes a day for months and only losing about 6 pounds.
A satellite in geo-sync orbit should actually be in shadow 2% or less of the time. I believe that's due to the fact that the earth wobbles on it's axis a good bit through out the year. That puts an object way out there in geo-sync rarely in our shadow, and for short durations when it does happen.
I haven't read about the attempts to transmitt power in this way between towers here on earth but I do wonder about the distance between them. It's entirely possible that two towers a few miles apart could have more actual atmospheric mass between them than the satellite and it's recieving station would. Our atmosphere isn't really very deep and it gets less dense the higher you go.
Personally this is exactly the kind of thing that I want to see my tax dollars supporting. It's technology that seems so far out there as to be impossible or impractical. But then again what do you think the average joe would have thought about nuclear power in the 1930's. The technology is worth the investment and more if it can help us produce electricity in abundance without worsening climate conditions.
You should look into USAA. They provide insurance to US Armed Service members primarily. But anyways they so far in my experience have been a great insurance company.
Every year they take any surplus money that was budgeted for claims and refund it to their customers. They are the only insurance company I have ever heard of that does that.
Of course that makes them an exception in my eyes and I agree with you that the majority are a scam.
Well actually there are several, such as taking a plane or other mass transit. The more people use such systems the cheaper they become. Right now mass transit fails in so many ways because people don't utilize it or it's implemented in extremely bad ways.
But to my main point. Many electric car hobbyists have already found a good way to work around the limited range plus long charge times of their vehicles. They build a pusher trailer or generator trailer. It's basically a small trailer that that has a motor and either pushes your car via it's own axle or runs a generator that provides power for your electric car. This might not be as efficient as having an internal cumbustion powered car or a hybrid. But it's only necessary for that one or two percent of your annual driving. The rest of the time your fuel costs are low enough to more than compensate for that rare long haul.
The simple way to ensure people charged when it was best for the grid would be to vary the cost of electricity according to the time of day or load on the grid. Chargers could easily be equiped with a timer such that it kicks in during the middle of the night. Or if we actually got to the point that the cost of a watt hour varied on the fly depending on immediate load on the grid. You could have a charger turn on when the price dipped below a specific price point.
Umm in theory this could already happen in yur car if it's modern at all. I know everything I owned after my '69 Catalina has had a fuse box. If the one for the brake booster blew guess what, you don't get power brakes. That's not to say you immediately crash and burn, but stopping the car becomes a whole lot more difficult.
From the sound of it when a single fuse blew they still had brakes at least as functional as you would in a normal car.
The Chair Force still has enlisted programmers. And while I haven't met one that was actually deployed to a combat environment to write code, I know a number that were deployed to do sys admin type stuff or to play like as a comm troop. One friend was deployed with the army and expected to know how to do all the stuff an Army comm troop would know, like how to work all their radio equipment and such. Hurray for the idiots that think MOS's and AFSC's are in anyways related.
Not that I am happy about the pricing of thei bandwidth caps. But most of those games come with a little sticker that says you'll need an internet connection to play. Your ISP isn't getting a kickback from the game developer for letting you play. It's your responsibility to provide for the internet connectivity.
Your complaint is much the same as "I bought this here fancy game and now I have to buy an Xbox360 for it to work!?!?!?"
By not taking action such that a murderer is not capable of murdering again you are culpable for any further murders they commit.
I believe that is what s/he was getting at. I don't personally agree with that 100% but I'm all for executions, hell they don't even need to be humane. I would however prefer that it be as inexpensive to the public as possible. Cruel punishment to me means that the punishment far out weighs the crime. But the punishment always needs to out weigh the crime by some measure so that it's a deterrant and not merely a cost of doing business.
I played until shortly after they released the Corvette raids or whatever.
The amount of credit duping that happened was apparently rediculous. I think they released a report that showed all the numbers. They had noticed that there was a lot more money being passed around than there should be. They showed in the report that almost twice as much money was being spent every day on building maintenance fees than was being brought into the game via mob drops and missions. And people still had millions of credits to swap around. So I don't know how the duping was being done but some people were doing it on a massive scale because I never talked to anyone that suggested it as a way to make money.
A single solo player could easily go out and earn 100k credits in an hour doing some missions, which would pay your fees for at least a week.
Anyways I had a lot of credits pass through my character and never knew anyone that got banned. I'd say it's unlikely they banned people for receiving duped credits.
The doom of the game really was a lack of content. The crafting was better than most games. The economy was entirely player driven. The skill system was fun though incredibly hard to balance from a developer's point of view. Their just wasn't enough content to play through in the normal sense. The only quest line I remember was for the rebels and you could do it all solo in a day or two. I think it was a sandbox game that could have used more sand.
I perused the linked site and it does look very interesting. I only have a few complaints.
1. At 3100+ pounds it seems rather heavy for it's size, I realize that a lot of that is battery weight but I'd think it could be made lighter.
2. The price, like you said is very high for a strictly two seater commuter vehicle. The price of course could come down if they can produce and assemble them in large numbers though.
I can't speak for whether or not european cars are as safe as american cars. But I can say that the idea that everyone driving a larger vehicle makes everyone safer. Larger is almost always heavier, more mass means more damage caused to whatever you hit. And possibly more speed retained after an impact where you no longer have control of the vehicle.
If safety were a real concern we would see more light weight vehicles with built in crash cages and harnesses not just seat belts.
PT or physical exercise has to be the most over rated treatment or preventative treatment I have ever experienced.
I was in the Chair For... ahem, Air Force for six years. And for five of those years we had mandatory PT three days a week. And it pretty much always made me feel like crap. I have always drank lots of water and little of anything else.
I'd rather die happily of a heart attack between 55 and 65 than live another 10 to 20 years and suffer through PT regularly for the rest of my life.
Going out on a limb here but I think the problem is that if you observe the dice roll then it's disentangled. And nobody is actually rolling the dice. We are simply rattling the dice in a an overturned cup. Once you remove the cup you can see the result the entangled die is set to the same thing. But the guy on the other end doesn't know how many dice you have looked at and when to stop looking at the dice on his end. In order for him to know that you've stopped he'd have to look at the others but doing so sets the ones on your end.
I never understood the phrase to begin with. It's not like once the cat is out of the bag you can't put it back in.
My wife has two cats that I routinely track down and punish when they've scratched on something they shouldn't or whatever. Cats are not some ephmereal animaal that's impossible to catch or something. It might mean moving furniture or burning down a stand of vegetation, but they are catchable and it's often entertaining to do so.
Maybe the mormons are different where you come from.
Granted I'm from the east/mid-west but most mormon kids I've known have been well aware of sex and how it works. Abstinance is clearly the most effective way to avoid being party to a pregnancy or contracting a STD. It however is not the only way and not educating children about alternatives is idiotic at best. I don't think the LDS church has discouraged proper education.
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I school we were allowed up to 20 days in a year as sick time. I always took as many as I was allowed. While I was in the military I only ever had one week of sick leave, when they stole my damn wisdom teeth. And in all my civilian jobs I have taken less than one week total in four years as sick time. Although my company just took away our week of sick leave and gave us two extra vacation days :(
And of course I count in Summer Vacation. What I wouldn't give to take a three month vacation every year from work.
Please, oh please, oh please let it be so. I long to give my money to anyone but the current monopolies.
I quit WoW probably close to a year ago. I didn't quit because the game was horrible or anything but rather because I got tired of it and I didn't have the large time chunks to dedicate to it that I once did.
Since I stopped playing WoW I played through Portal, Halflife 2 and all it's sequels, Warhammer Online for a few months, Diablo 2 for a few months with some old friends, and now I'm enjoying Atlantica Online. There may not be another game out there that is exactly like WoW, but there are plenty of games that are just as good in their own right. If someone wants a WoW that's awesomer for them they should run an emulation server and cater to their own interests. It's not any game companies responsibility to make a game just exactly to a specific players taste.
Well actually I spend way more time in a year at work than I ever did at school.
And amusingly enough I take far less sick days from work than I did from school, probably has something to do with getting a more immediate reward in the form of a paycheck.
That's not actually true. The game has changed a lot since it was originally released. The difficulty of the end game has come down by a lot. The exp and hence time required to level has been reduced by a ton, meaning even fewer of the quests in any given area get finished now. Many classes have changed in their overall ability and utility. That said, the changes aren't all negative depending on your perspective. If you liked being among the hardcore elite that finished Naxx when it was a 40 man I can understand the feeling that the game has gone down hilll since then. If you were more casual than that you probably appreciate the better access to the end game content your gaming dollars have paid for. In the end it will always be a matter of opinion whether or not a game is better or worse than it used to be.
If exercise is a stress relief to you then you are just an exercise junky. Playing a sport for entertainment can qualify as a stress relief for me so long as it's a fair and challenging game. But just regular PT usually just gets me mad at the world. Maybe I should try it again now that I am out of the Chair Force and any PT would be strictly voluntary on my part. But while I was in I was constantly struggling to pass the next PT test, the part I couldn't ever do well on was waist size. PT was always exhausting and enraging, it never seemed to make a difference that mattered and was painful as hell.
I still love video games, just hit 30. My problem now is finding time and money to afford playing them. Between church commitments, honey do lists, hobby activities with the wife, soon time with children, and of course the ever present job that pays for everything I can get in maybe an average of two hours a day.
Differences in metabolism are rather well established I thought.
Anyways there are other things that affect weight gain and loss other than metabolism that are wide spread. Like Sleep Apnea. I remember seeing somewhere that as much as 45% of the US population has it to some degree or another. And before you go blaming obesity for sleep apnea that's been shown to be an aggravator and not a cause.
Oh the comedy of people with less efficient digestion or metabolism being healthier.
Personally mine is very efficient on both fronts. When I was in the US Chair Force I was on a fat kid program for close to six months before I managed to test out of it. The only reason I passed was that I wore a neoprene belt under a weight belt cinched as tight as it would go, for 10 hours before being measured. That was my last resort after tightly controlling and recording my food intake, and doing aerobic exercise at least 45 minutes a day for months and only losing about 6 pounds.
A satellite in geo-sync orbit should actually be in shadow 2% or less of the time. I believe that's due to the fact that the earth wobbles on it's axis a good bit through out the year. That puts an object way out there in geo-sync rarely in our shadow, and for short durations when it does happen.
I haven't read about the attempts to transmitt power in this way between towers here on earth but I do wonder about the distance between them. It's entirely possible that two towers a few miles apart could have more actual atmospheric mass between them than the satellite and it's recieving station would. Our atmosphere isn't really very deep and it gets less dense the higher you go.
Personally this is exactly the kind of thing that I want to see my tax dollars supporting. It's technology that seems so far out there as to be impossible or impractical. But then again what do you think the average joe would have thought about nuclear power in the 1930's. The technology is worth the investment and more if it can help us produce electricity in abundance without worsening climate conditions.
You should look into USAA. They provide insurance to US Armed Service members primarily. But anyways they so far in my experience have been a great insurance company.
Every year they take any surplus money that was budgeted for claims and refund it to their customers. They are the only insurance company I have ever heard of that does that.
Of course that makes them an exception in my eyes and I agree with you that the majority are a scam.
There is another option for long distance travel.
Well actually there are several, such as taking a plane or other mass transit. The more people use such systems the cheaper they become. Right now mass transit fails in so many ways because people don't utilize it or it's implemented in extremely bad ways.
But to my main point. Many electric car hobbyists have already found a good way to work around the limited range plus long charge times of their vehicles. They build a pusher trailer or generator trailer. It's basically a small trailer that that has a motor and either pushes your car via it's own axle or runs a generator that provides power for your electric car. This might not be as efficient as having an internal cumbustion powered car or a hybrid. But it's only necessary for that one or two percent of your annual driving. The rest of the time your fuel costs are low enough to more than compensate for that rare long haul.
The simple way to ensure people charged when it was best for the grid would be to vary the cost of electricity according to the time of day or load on the grid. Chargers could easily be equiped with a timer such that it kicks in during the middle of the night. Or if we actually got to the point that the cost of a watt hour varied on the fly depending on immediate load on the grid. You could have a charger turn on when the price dipped below a specific price point.
Umm in theory this could already happen in yur car if it's modern at all. I know everything I owned after my '69 Catalina has had a fuse box. If the one for the brake booster blew guess what, you don't get power brakes. That's not to say you immediately crash and burn, but stopping the car becomes a whole lot more difficult.
From the sound of it when a single fuse blew they still had brakes at least as functional as you would in a normal car.
The Chair Force still has enlisted programmers. And while I haven't met one that was actually deployed to a combat environment to write code, I know a number that were deployed to do sys admin type stuff or to play like as a comm troop. One friend was deployed with the army and expected to know how to do all the stuff an Army comm troop would know, like how to work all their radio equipment and such. Hurray for the idiots that think MOS's and AFSC's are in anyways related.
Not that I am happy about the pricing of thei bandwidth caps. But most of those games come with a little sticker that says you'll need an internet connection to play. Your ISP isn't getting a kickback from the game developer for letting you play. It's your responsibility to provide for the internet connectivity. Your complaint is much the same as "I bought this here fancy game and now I have to buy an Xbox360 for it to work!?!?!?"
Prisons are not quite safe.
By not taking action such that a murderer is not capable of murdering again you are culpable for any further murders they commit.
I believe that is what s/he was getting at. I don't personally agree with that 100% but I'm all for executions, hell they don't even need to be humane. I would however prefer that it be as inexpensive to the public as possible. Cruel punishment to me means that the punishment far out weighs the crime. But the punishment always needs to out weigh the crime by some measure so that it's a deterrant and not merely a cost of doing business.
I played until shortly after they released the Corvette raids or whatever.
The amount of credit duping that happened was apparently rediculous. I think they released a report that showed all the numbers. They had noticed that there was a lot more money being passed around than there should be. They showed in the report that almost twice as much money was being spent every day on building maintenance fees than was being brought into the game via mob drops and missions. And people still had millions of credits to swap around. So I don't know how the duping was being done but some people were doing it on a massive scale because I never talked to anyone that suggested it as a way to make money.
A single solo player could easily go out and earn 100k credits in an hour doing some missions, which would pay your fees for at least a week.
Anyways I had a lot of credits pass through my character and never knew anyone that got banned. I'd say it's unlikely they banned people for receiving duped credits.
The doom of the game really was a lack of content. The crafting was better than most games. The economy was entirely player driven. The skill system was fun though incredibly hard to balance from a developer's point of view. Their just wasn't enough content to play through in the normal sense. The only quest line I remember was for the rebels and you could do it all solo in a day or two. I think it was a sandbox game that could have used more sand.
I perused the linked site and it does look very interesting. I only have a few complaints.
1. At 3100+ pounds it seems rather heavy for it's size, I realize that a lot of that is battery weight but I'd think it could be made lighter.
2. The price, like you said is very high for a strictly two seater commuter vehicle. The price of course could come down if they can produce and assemble them in large numbers though.
I can't speak for whether or not european cars are as safe as american cars. But I can say that the idea that everyone driving a larger vehicle makes everyone safer. Larger is almost always heavier, more mass means more damage caused to whatever you hit. And possibly more speed retained after an impact where you no longer have control of the vehicle.
If safety were a real concern we would see more light weight vehicles with built in crash cages and harnesses not just seat belts.
PT or physical exercise has to be the most over rated treatment or preventative treatment I have ever experienced.
I was in the Chair For... ahem, Air Force for six years. And for five of those years we had mandatory PT three days a week. And it pretty much always made me feel like crap. I have always drank lots of water and little of anything else.
I'd rather die happily of a heart attack between 55 and 65 than live another 10 to 20 years and suffer through PT regularly for the rest of my life.
P.S. pass the me a snacky cake
Going out on a limb here but I think the problem is that if you observe the dice roll then it's disentangled. And nobody is actually rolling the dice. We are simply rattling the dice in a an overturned cup. Once you remove the cup you can see the result the entangled die is set to the same thing. But the guy on the other end doesn't know how many dice you have looked at and when to stop looking at the dice on his end. In order for him to know that you've stopped he'd have to look at the others but doing so sets the ones on your end.
I never understood the phrase to begin with. It's not like once the cat is out of the bag you can't put it back in.
My wife has two cats that I routinely track down and punish when they've scratched on something they shouldn't or whatever. Cats are not some ephmereal animaal that's impossible to catch or something. It might mean moving furniture or burning down a stand of vegetation, but they are catchable and it's often entertaining to do so.
Maybe the mormons are different where you come from.
Granted I'm from the east/mid-west but most mormon kids I've known have been well aware of sex and how it works. Abstinance is clearly the most effective way to avoid being party to a pregnancy or contracting a STD. It however is not the only way and not educating children about alternatives is idiotic at best. I don't think the LDS church has discouraged proper education.