If you don't like fancy bibles, you should try your local Bible Factory Outlet. Their stuff is real basic. You know their motto: "Where Jesus Saves, and You can Too!".
What I find funny is the irony of the copyright notice in the front of the bibles and hymnals. Jesus says "Spread the Good News!" The United Methodist Publishing Company says "No part of this may be reproduced without our permission." It's actually on the very first page with any significant text, before any of the scripture itself.
One counter-example does not an arguement make. The US also elected the son of a Kenyan to be President, but I'd hardly say that our race issues are solved. The ability of someone who is obviously not of the majority genetic stock in a country to get a taxi late at night is a better indicator of social harmony than a rise of one gifted indivdual to the top layers of the government.
Bullshit. In the 20th century, the American Government put rockets into space. In the 21st century, Americans will put rocket into space. Granted, SpaceX's first client happens to to be the government. But there will be other clients as well. Then, eventually, we'll have companies show up who's first client isn't the government. That's a whole new world.
Congrads indeed... finally we are at the point where NASA was in the 1960's!
And leaps and bounds above where we were yesterday. You fail to factor cost into your evaluation. In the 1960's low earth orbit was about developing the science to make it possible. Today, it's about developing the engineering to make it practical.
The space shuttle was a flying dump truck. The most awesomest dump truck ever, but still a dump truck. Falcon 9 is a flying dump truck. Just as there's no reason in the current age for the government to produce dump trucks, we're reaching the point where there's no reason for the government to produce a low-earth orbit vehicle.
Going to Mars, exploring asteroids, and other new ventures should now get NASA's focus. Those require the development of new ideas and science, and don't have a clear viable business plan to support private development of a turnkey solution.
Well, come on over, then. We need more people with a can-do attitude. Visa applications are avaialble at your local embassy...
For those who don't know, Elon Musk was born in South Africa, and left to avoid Military Service in the 80's (which propped up the Apartheid government). He came over here, built paypal into a powerhouse (thorugh a merger, he didn't found it), founded Tesla motors, and he built a rocketship. Hell yeah.
Yeah, it's still a little while until we get people up there in one of those things, but it's gonna happen. We're back, baby! Congrats to the Space X team!
This video is worth watching for the lesson it presents. The lesson is not about Facebook, or IPOs, or anything as specific as that. It's a detailed analysis of what's happening to the stock price as computers manipulate millions of shares of the stock. This guy can talk for 8 minutes (and it's an interesting talk) about something that took about 3 seconds to occur. If you ever had doubts that the long term, buy and hold investor is a sucker in today's markets, this is a video to watch.
Because it only makes sense to buy it back if you're reasonably sure it's going to go back up again. You buying a stock just because it's been tanking lately may just mean you've fallen into the Value Trap:
http://wiki.fool.com/Value_trap
Yeah. The fact is that the American People paid for John Kerry's Luxury Yacht. Fuck Him.
(I'm not going to let the fact that they paid for it by buying Heinz ketchup derail my rant. It's too much fun. Actually, I suppose that also means the British People paid for his yacht. Have you ever been to England? They eat that shit up. They bring a whole tray with a bunch of different little packets to your table. I wish they did that here.)
If this is the case, you also have to take a look at the management of your own company. What were they doing when the second $1M check was written? The third? You could reasonably had an expert come in and audit the processes of the alleged non-idiot company for $20k or less. If they refuse, you cut them off.
The fact that management kept cutting checks is likley an indicator that they didn't understand what they wanted in the first place, and kept paying the highly recommended non-idiots to rework the product over and over again until they figured out what they wanted, or ran out of money.
One thing about non-idiots, if there's a steady paycheck in it, they'll do whatever you say.
Then again, the non-idiots are less cheap and sometimes that can be a turn-off for decision makers who are more focused on the bottom line than on the quality of the work.
Exactly. There seems to be this myth around outsourcing that somehow there's a magic method by which an outsourcing company can provide you engineering or programming effort for less than what it would cost you to hire someone of equal quality, despite the fact that the outsource company has to provide facilities, licenses, computers etc for that person, and also make a profit. This just isn't going to happen. You go to outsource for business flexibility, or in order to gain access to expertise that you don't have internally, and don't want to pay to hire over the long term. If it seems too good to be true, it is.
The other thing is that you can't just look at outsourcing as being the same as you having programmers, but in a different building. You aren't going to be walking by their desk every couple of hours, and see what they're doing. Managers are often used to being able to do this. As a result, many companies that aren't used to outsourcing have weak requirements specification processes. They just notice when what's being made isn't what they want, and fix it early. With outsourcing, you have to put more effort in on the front-end requirements, or you'll get something that isn't what you want, even with a competent outsourcing outfit.
You have to trade this off against the flexibility that an outsource outfit gives you. You don't have to spend time and resources recruiting. You don't have to provide office space. You don't have to worry about what to do with the people if your budget or needs dimish.
The other thing is that for a lot of people, it isn't a matter of being "fucking picky" as trying to show respect for the God that you believe in. At our company we have Hindus, Muslems, Sikhs, and just your garden variety vegeterains and health nuts, and we typically all go out together.
If you alienate all of these people, eventually they'll quit. A company like mine will hire the best of them, and eventually we'll put you out of business if you are a competitor of ours.
What you're talking about is basically the business plan used all across China. Lots of small (~30MW) coal plants close to urban areas to minimize transmission costs, with no scrubbers. And the jets that fly in to Beijing in the afternoon often have to land on instruments due to the smog.
Next time someone tells you we don't need the EPA, have them google Beijing Smog or Wuhan Smog on google images.
The interesting question to me about this is always how much of a Church's revenue flows back out as social works. If a church uses the money to build a more beautiful sactuary, or a recreation center that primarily benefits the members, then it's not much more charitable than paying a monthly fee to Bally's or a country club. If the money, however, is sent back out into the (or another) community, primarily to benefit non-members, then you're talking about charity. Personally, I feel that churches tend to be over-rated as charities. We give way less than 10% to our church, but more than 10% in total contributions to charity. I see a lot of charities that put my money to better use than our church committee can.
Because their friends who like burgers are also going there for lunch. The ability to placate the healthy eater or vegeterian in a lunch group has become vital to the lunch menu, particularly in urban business areas. If you don't have these items, you get Veto'd by one person out of six, and you lose the whole group to some place the one can settle for.
And dozens of other companies that fit the same description are gone. Don't doubt yourself. Don't invest in a company if you don't understand how they're going to make money.
Don't know about selling data, but their astroturfing unit seems to be running at full steam.
Take a look at the original post. I SAID LOOK AT IT! Holy shit! IT'S FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. The grammar and punctuation is impeccable. It's the longest, most intensive, best edited FIRST POST! I've ever seen. Complete with embedded links! Almost as if he had it typed and ready to paste in advance of this story. Oh, and it's the only story ever commented on by a brand new ID. Get bent, astroturfer. We like Google better than you. Suck on it.
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If you don't like fancy bibles, you should try your local Bible Factory Outlet. Their stuff is real basic. You know their motto: "Where Jesus Saves, and You can Too!".
What I find funny is the irony of the copyright notice in the front of the bibles and hymnals. Jesus says "Spread the Good News!" The United Methodist Publishing Company says "No part of this may be reproduced without our permission." It's actually on the very first page with any significant text, before any of the scripture itself.
One counter-example does not an arguement make. The US also elected the son of a Kenyan to be President, but I'd hardly say that our race issues are solved. The ability of someone who is obviously not of the majority genetic stock in a country to get a taxi late at night is a better indicator of social harmony than a rise of one gifted indivdual to the top layers of the government.
Bullshit. In the 20th century, the American Government put rockets into space. In the 21st century, Americans will put rocket into space. Granted, SpaceX's first client happens to to be the government. But there will be other clients as well. Then, eventually, we'll have companies show up who's first client isn't the government. That's a whole new world.
And the attitudes and opportunities to bring him here. He was an American all along, it just took him a while to realize it.
Congrads indeed... finally we are at the point where NASA was in the 1960's!
And leaps and bounds above where we were yesterday. You fail to factor cost into your evaluation. In the 1960's low earth orbit was about developing the science to make it possible. Today, it's about developing the engineering to make it practical.
The space shuttle was a flying dump truck. The most awesomest dump truck ever, but still a dump truck. Falcon 9 is a flying dump truck. Just as there's no reason in the current age for the government to produce dump trucks, we're reaching the point where there's no reason for the government to produce a low-earth orbit vehicle.
Going to Mars, exploring asteroids, and other new ventures should now get NASA's focus. Those require the development of new ideas and science, and don't have a clear viable business plan to support private development of a turnkey solution.
Well, come on over, then. We need more people with a can-do attitude. Visa applications are avaialble at your local embassy...
For those who don't know, Elon Musk was born in South Africa, and left to avoid Military Service in the 80's (which propped up the Apartheid government). He came over here, built paypal into a powerhouse (thorugh a merger, he didn't found it), founded Tesla motors, and he built a rocketship. Hell yeah.
Yeah, it's still a little while until we get people up there in one of those things, but it's gonna happen. We're back, baby! Congrats to the Space X team!
Farmers do skin milk cows after they stop being good milk cows. Cooincidence?
I'm betting he got married on the day of his highest net worth.
Don't we all...
http://cryptogon.com/?p=29242
See the video replay of High-Frequency-Trading manipulation of the 38 USD. They call it a "Tractor Beam" Ha! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkH_WQxxEA
This video is worth watching for the lesson it presents. The lesson is not about Facebook, or IPOs, or anything as specific as that. It's a detailed analysis of what's happening to the stock price as computers manipulate millions of shares of the stock. This guy can talk for 8 minutes (and it's an interesting talk) about something that took about 3 seconds to occur. If you ever had doubts that the long term, buy and hold investor is a sucker in today's markets, this is a video to watch.
Because it only makes sense to buy it back if you're reasonably sure it's going to go back up again. You buying a stock just because it's been tanking lately may just mean you've fallen into the Value Trap: http://wiki.fool.com/Value_trap
Yeah. The fact is that the American People paid for John Kerry's Luxury Yacht. Fuck Him.
(I'm not going to let the fact that they paid for it by buying Heinz ketchup derail my rant. It's too much fun. Actually, I suppose that also means the British People paid for his yacht. Have you ever been to England? They eat that shit up. They bring a whole tray with a bunch of different little packets to your table. I wish they did that here.)
If this is the case, you also have to take a look at the management of your own company. What were they doing when the second $1M check was written? The third? You could reasonably had an expert come in and audit the processes of the alleged non-idiot company for $20k or less. If they refuse, you cut them off.
The fact that management kept cutting checks is likley an indicator that they didn't understand what they wanted in the first place, and kept paying the highly recommended non-idiots to rework the product over and over again until they figured out what they wanted, or ran out of money.
One thing about non-idiots, if there's a steady paycheck in it, they'll do whatever you say.
Then again, the non-idiots are less cheap and sometimes that can be a turn-off for decision makers who are more focused on the bottom line than on the quality of the work.
Exactly. There seems to be this myth around outsourcing that somehow there's a magic method by which an outsourcing company can provide you engineering or programming effort for less than what it would cost you to hire someone of equal quality, despite the fact that the outsource company has to provide facilities, licenses, computers etc for that person, and also make a profit. This just isn't going to happen. You go to outsource for business flexibility, or in order to gain access to expertise that you don't have internally, and don't want to pay to hire over the long term. If it seems too good to be true, it is.
The other thing is that you can't just look at outsourcing as being the same as you having programmers, but in a different building. You aren't going to be walking by their desk every couple of hours, and see what they're doing. Managers are often used to being able to do this. As a result, many companies that aren't used to outsourcing have weak requirements specification processes. They just notice when what's being made isn't what they want, and fix it early. With outsourcing, you have to put more effort in on the front-end requirements, or you'll get something that isn't what you want, even with a competent outsourcing outfit.
You have to trade this off against the flexibility that an outsource outfit gives you. You don't have to spend time and resources recruiting. You don't have to provide office space. You don't have to worry about what to do with the people if your budget or needs dimish.
The other thing is that for a lot of people, it isn't a matter of being "fucking picky" as trying to show respect for the God that you believe in. At our company we have Hindus, Muslems, Sikhs, and just your garden variety vegeterains and health nuts, and we typically all go out together.
If you alienate all of these people, eventually they'll quit. A company like mine will hire the best of them, and eventually we'll put you out of business if you are a competitor of ours.
What you're talking about is basically the business plan used all across China. Lots of small (~30MW) coal plants close to urban areas to minimize transmission costs, with no scrubbers. And the jets that fly in to Beijing in the afternoon often have to land on instruments due to the smog.
Next time someone tells you we don't need the EPA, have them google Beijing Smog or Wuhan Smog on google images.
The interesting question to me about this is always how much of a Church's revenue flows back out as social works. If a church uses the money to build a more beautiful sactuary, or a recreation center that primarily benefits the members, then it's not much more charitable than paying a monthly fee to Bally's or a country club. If the money, however, is sent back out into the (or another) community, primarily to benefit non-members, then you're talking about charity. Personally, I feel that churches tend to be over-rated as charities. We give way less than 10% to our church, but more than 10% in total contributions to charity. I see a lot of charities that put my money to better use than our church committee can.
Why would someone go to MacD to get salads?
Because their friends who like burgers are also going there for lunch. The ability to placate the healthy eater or vegeterian in a lunch group has become vital to the lunch menu, particularly in urban business areas. If you don't have these items, you get Veto'd by one person out of six, and you lose the whole group to some place the one can settle for.
And dozens of other companies that fit the same description are gone. Don't doubt yourself. Don't invest in a company if you don't understand how they're going to make money.
Also, Google has a mobile strategy.
ZING!
Seriously. They'd be more credible if they posted AC. But apparently that's not how you run the AstroTurf playbook.
Don't know about selling data, but their astroturfing unit seems to be running at full steam.
Take a look at the original post. I SAID LOOK AT IT! Holy shit! IT'S FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. The grammar and punctuation is impeccable. It's the longest, most intensive, best edited FIRST POST! I've ever seen. Complete with embedded links! Almost as if he had it typed and ready to paste in advance of this story. Oh, and it's the only story ever commented on by a brand new ID. Get bent, astroturfer. We like Google better than you. Suck on it.