I know of no stores that will accept gold as payment (unless it's in official currency, and then it's just cash anyway). I haven't asked around, but I also suspect that my local bank would be very recluctant to cash it for me. I certainly wouldn't expect any random bank to do it for me.
We don't have such around here, but would pawnbrokers even give you close to a decent deal on gold? I.e. if you're paying a 30% markup on buying and then paying a 30% markup on sellng, you'd end up with 49% of the original cash value, so why even bother?
Cash is going away because it's terribly inconvenient compared to electronic methods.
Yes... until you're faced with let's say a massive power outage or the entire system to handle said electronic methods fails (has happened several times in Denmark).
Hell, something as simple as a crashed register will make it impossible to use electronic methods, but won't stop you from using cash.
That said, they've started an alarming trend of hiding the primary menu, too, until you press the Alt key or click some icon. Whoever thought the primary menus for applications should be hidden should be shot, IMHO...
Shooting them is indicative of wanting them dead. Honestly that's letting them off easy.
I say they should be hit with soggy meat loaves for 16 hours a day until the end of their natural life.
No, the reason applets took forever to load and were sluggish as hell, were that the people making them were idiots.
Back in 2002 I made an applet (98kB) that would load off a tiny embedded webserver and communicate with said webserver to display (including history) and control the LON enabled nodes in an office building (lights, air conditioning, radiators, water meters, power meters etc).
The applet would be ready in about 2 seconds and the only 'slow' bit about it was updating the sensors due to the LON controller I was interfacing with (actually its SOAP interface).
Applets that are used to navigate a website and take up 1+ MB are very much the reason applets are frowned upon as being slow. I can easily make a shell in C that is slow as molasses - this doesn't mean that C nor a shell has to be slow.
If someone breaks into my house planning to rob me blind, but finds I've got several dead people stashed in my basement, should that be admissible? Should he be able to go to the police and say "hey, this guy's got corpses in his basement!" And if he does so, should that be admissible in a court case against me? Or should that all be thrown out because he shouldn't have been in my house in the first place?
While I don't live in the US, I'd still say that "unreasonable search" covers "breaking and entering". If the only way that evidence was procured was breaking the law, then that evidence shouldn't be admissible.
Thieves, murderers, rapists... doesn't really matter what the crime is. Law enforcement agencies have a LOT of power to wield as it is. If they can't get what they need without resorting to breaking the rules/laws we set up, then it's just too bad. If we allow them to break them, what makes them any different than a occupying military force? The same rules that they are allowed to break?
Who is a child though? Is a 15 year old a child? 16 year old?
Keep in mind that 15-year-olds are legally allowed to have consensual sex in quite a lot of countries. 16 seems to be the norm in the US alone with more than half the states putting age of concent at 16.
The scary thing about that is, that it is entirely legal for a 19-year-old to have sex with a 17-year-old (ages picked to keep the difference small), but if the 17-year-old has set up a hidden camera that the 19-year-old doesn't know about, they'll still be on the hook for creating child pornography.
I'm not picking on the USA in the scary bit. That's true of all the countries I know of, that have an age of consent below 18. I find it odd that you can do A completely legally - as long as it's not recorded in any way, shape or form. It's like "don't ask, don't tell" - only worse.
And considering the amount of hysteria surrounding child pornography, I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal for a 17-year-old to make write about it in a diary.
When I played on Party Poker they used to give a prop offer about once a week. "Play at this table for $x/hour". You played with your own money, and the payment wouldn't even cover the blinds. It was an incentive to get more people to the table, not to increase their own take (the rake is always limited).
They treat you like crap because they can get away with it - that simple.
If the general behavior around your office is as you say, start keeping a clipboard with their project requests on it. They want something done, they get put on the list, and make sure they see that they're on the bottom of that list. Add a column to indicate estimated time required.
Essentially they're treating you like the janitor. They think everything's as simple as unclogging the toilet or getting more toilet paper. And your attitude seems to reinforce their perception of this.
You seem to show them that your time is worthless and that your job could be done by a trained monkey - why would you expect them to treat you differently?
This depends a lot on for example the cost of "suppose 100 years from now the storage facility generates a leak causing 100 square miles of our country to become inhabitable"
Well, if that really was the case, you could always just dump the stuff in small storage facilities around New Jersey?
Actually, I didn't cherry pick those two - they were plucked by the original poster. Some times it helps to understand a posting, if you also read the parent.
The jet engine? As invented by a British scientist and close to perfected by German scientists during the Second World War? The German version of the jet engine was limited by material science, as they used a layout almost similar to what we have today, but didn't have the materials to make it handle the temperatures involved.
Rockets are almost as iffy, as the V2 Rocket was the first "real" rocket and a German invention.
Additionally, one thing that people tend to forget: There is not requirement for the higher courts to actually hear the cases. They will generally only hear the cases that they feel will result in overturning. As such it's hardly surprising that the numbers are "high".
No, I'm not going to go along those lines - that's just adding to the fire of "ban violent [something]", and we haven't seen any good studies showing a link between virtual and real violence.
However, we HAVE seen how effective TV, radio and movie theaters are in turning a population against others, raising support for horrible behaviour, war... lots of other stuff.
It's actually documented in Germany's own history. Yes, I almost Godwin'ed myself, but in this case it's quite relevant, even though it is slightly trollish.
[...]improvements that prevent this sort of thing from again happening.
And if it turns out that it WAS indeed hit by a meteor? Let's just say it was struck by a 10 meter diameter meteor right in the cockpick, tearing it off - how does one go about preventing that?
You can't just wipe them out with a stroke of a pen, and expect no consequences.
True - but isn't it possible that the consequences were exactly what "they" were after?
Think about it - remove the regulations and you can make oodles of money in short time. Make your money and get out while the going is still good (but slowing slightly). Wait for the entire system to crash through the floor. Buy up the traditionally safe investments (now going at much cheaper prices than normal) and repeat.
Comparing your 'religion' to Judaism is ridiculous.
Why? Both are made up. Both use fiction as their reference material.
That one happens to be older than the other doesn't make it more "correct". I mean - is judaism more "correct" than christianity? Granted, the latter believes that some day a benevolent space zombie will come back to save us, but still...
While I doubt I'll be going to the USA (how does one answer the single question: "Do you plan on doing anything illegal or immoral while in the US?" if you figure "while I'm in Las Vegas, I might visit one of the legal brothels outside Clark country"? Hell, what if you're planning on having sex with someone you're not married to? Gambling in Vegas? Eating non-kosher foods?) I can somewhat see the point in fingerprinting in- and outbound foreigners.
If you scan them on the way in and connect the fingerprints with the persons visa, you can then make a better system for checking up on those who overstay. Granted, it is obviously possible to leave by different means (private boat-trip to the Bahamas), but I would suspect that you'd get what... 95% of all visitors checked off that way?
There IS of course the risk that the MPAA etc. decides that since the laptop/dvd-player screen might be facing towards one of the many shuttle cameras, it would now constitute a public performance. Or that it's not a private showing.
It's not so much the refill pitstops that made Audi win all those times. The fact that their cars have far fewer techincal problems (i.e. engine or gearbox failures etc) means that they don't have to spend nearly as long in the pits.
Compare the Audi R10 TDI with the Peugeot 908 HDi and you'll see that the 908 is quicker, is almost as fuel efficient (I think they pitted every 13 and 12 laps respectively), and the 908 would have won if it was more reliable. The R10 won with a margain of 4 minutes and didn't win with a lapping of the 908.
Tom Kristensen told TV reporters before the race started, that they wouldn't beat the 908 or speed (they were consistantly 3 seconds slower per lap) or fuel efficiency (that'd be made up with the faster 908), but simply on endurance. That and the fact that his team was consistantly faster during the night - a discipline that Tom excels at, and one of the reasons he's won Le Mans 8 times out of the 12 he's competed - would be 9 out of 12, if his team mate hadn't crashed after the car lost a wheel. It wasn't Capello's fault - I doubt anyone could have kept that car running to the pits after that.
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I know of no stores that will accept gold as payment (unless it's in official currency, and then it's just cash anyway). I haven't asked around, but I also suspect that my local bank would be very recluctant to cash it for me. I certainly wouldn't expect any random bank to do it for me.
We don't have such around here, but would pawnbrokers even give you close to a decent deal on gold? I.e. if you're paying a 30% markup on buying and then paying a 30% markup on sellng, you'd end up with 49% of the original cash value, so why even bother?
Yes ... until you're faced with let's say a massive power outage or the entire system to handle said electronic methods fails (has happened several times in Denmark).
Hell, something as simple as a crashed register will make it impossible to use electronic methods, but won't stop you from using cash.
Shooting them is indicative of wanting them dead. Honestly that's letting them off easy.
I say they should be hit with soggy meat loaves for 16 hours a day until the end of their natural life.
No, the reason applets took forever to load and were sluggish as hell, were that the people making them were idiots.
Back in 2002 I made an applet (98kB) that would load off a tiny embedded webserver and communicate with said webserver to display (including history) and control the LON enabled nodes in an office building (lights, air conditioning, radiators, water meters, power meters etc).
The applet would be ready in about 2 seconds and the only 'slow' bit about it was updating the sensors due to the LON controller I was interfacing with (actually its SOAP interface).
Applets that are used to navigate a website and take up 1+ MB are very much the reason applets are frowned upon as being slow. I can easily make a shell in C that is slow as molasses - this doesn't mean that C nor a shell has to be slow.
That certainly depends. If the remaining 25% all survive on "reality tv" I'd say nothing of value would survive.
Microsoft is convicted of abusing their monopoly?
It's like asking why a convicted child molester isn't allowed near a school when other people aren't subjected to such measures.
While I don't live in the US, I'd still say that "unreasonable search" covers "breaking and entering". If the only way that evidence was procured was breaking the law, then that evidence shouldn't be admissible.
Thieves, murderers, rapists ... doesn't really matter what the crime is. Law enforcement agencies have a LOT of power to wield as it is. If they can't get what they need without resorting to breaking the rules/laws we set up, then it's just too bad. If we allow them to break them, what makes them any different than a occupying military force? The same rules that they are allowed to break?
Keep in mind that 15-year-olds are legally allowed to have consensual sex in quite a lot of countries. 16 seems to be the norm in the US alone with more than half the states putting age of concent at 16.
The scary thing about that is, that it is entirely legal for a 19-year-old to have sex with a 17-year-old (ages picked to keep the difference small), but if the 17-year-old has set up a hidden camera that the 19-year-old doesn't know about, they'll still be on the hook for creating child pornography.
I'm not picking on the USA in the scary bit. That's true of all the countries I know of, that have an age of consent below 18. I find it odd that you can do A completely legally - as long as it's not recorded in any way, shape or form. It's like "don't ask, don't tell" - only worse.
And considering the amount of hysteria surrounding child pornography, I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal for a 17-year-old to make write about it in a diary.
As in it will decay into something else?
And what exactly will hydrogen decay into?
When I played on Party Poker they used to give a prop offer about once a week. "Play at this table for $x/hour". You played with your own money, and the payment wouldn't even cover the blinds. It was an incentive to get more people to the table, not to increase their own take (the rake is always limited).
They treat you like crap because they can get away with it - that simple.
If the general behavior around your office is as you say, start keeping a clipboard with their project requests on it. They want something done, they get put on the list, and make sure they see that they're on the bottom of that list. Add a column to indicate estimated time required.
Essentially they're treating you like the janitor. They think everything's as simple as unclogging the toilet or getting more toilet paper. And your attitude seems to reinforce their perception of this.
You seem to show them that your time is worthless and that your job could be done by a trained monkey - why would you expect them to treat you differently?
Am I the only one who thought "that's a Sheldon Cooper right there" when he read that article?
Well, if that really was the case, you could always just dump the stuff in small storage facilities around New Jersey?
Oh, you meant " uninhabitable"? ;)
Actually, I didn't cherry pick those two - they were plucked by the original poster. Some times it helps to understand a posting, if you also read the parent.
The jet engine? As invented by a British scientist and close to perfected by German scientists during the Second World War? The German version of the jet engine was limited by material science, as they used a layout almost similar to what we have today, but didn't have the materials to make it handle the temperatures involved.
Rockets are almost as iffy, as the V2 Rocket was the first "real" rocket and a German invention.
Additionally, one thing that people tend to forget: There is not requirement for the higher courts to actually hear the cases. They will generally only hear the cases that they feel will result in overturning. As such it's hardly surprising that the numbers are "high".
Not for the violent tv-shows, movies etc ...
No, I'm not going to go along those lines - that's just adding to the fire of "ban violent [something]", and we haven't seen any good studies showing a link between virtual and real violence.
However, we HAVE seen how effective TV, radio and movie theaters are in turning a population against others, raising support for horrible behaviour, war ... lots of other stuff.
It's actually documented in Germany's own history. Yes, I almost Godwin'ed myself, but in this case it's quite relevant, even though it is slightly trollish.
Because no nation owns the moon nor any part of it?
And if it turns out that it WAS indeed hit by a meteor? Let's just say it was struck by a 10 meter diameter meteor right in the cockpick, tearing it off - how does one go about preventing that?
True - but isn't it possible that the consequences were exactly what "they" were after?
Think about it - remove the regulations and you can make oodles of money in short time. Make your money and get out while the going is still good (but slowing slightly). Wait for the entire system to crash through the floor. Buy up the traditionally safe investments (now going at much cheaper prices than normal) and repeat.
Why? Both are made up. Both use fiction as their reference material.
That one happens to be older than the other doesn't make it more "correct". I mean - is judaism more "correct" than christianity? Granted, the latter believes that some day a benevolent space zombie will come back to save us, but still ...
Can they be yellow? And big and durable enough to be sewn onto your clothing?
While I doubt I'll be going to the USA (how does one answer the single question: "Do you plan on doing anything illegal or immoral while in the US?" if you figure "while I'm in Las Vegas, I might visit one of the legal brothels outside Clark country"? Hell, what if you're planning on having sex with someone you're not married to? Gambling in Vegas? Eating non-kosher foods?) I can somewhat see the point in fingerprinting in- and outbound foreigners.
If you scan them on the way in and connect the fingerprints with the persons visa, you can then make a better system for checking up on those who overstay. Granted, it is obviously possible to leave by different means (private boat-trip to the Bahamas), but I would suspect that you'd get what ... 95% of all visitors checked off that way?
There IS of course the risk that the MPAA etc. decides that since the laptop/dvd-player screen might be facing towards one of the many shuttle cameras, it would now constitute a public performance. Or that it's not a private showing.
It's not so much the refill pitstops that made Audi win all those times. The fact that their cars have far fewer techincal problems (i.e. engine or gearbox failures etc) means that they don't have to spend nearly as long in the pits.
Compare the Audi R10 TDI with the Peugeot 908 HDi and you'll see that the 908 is quicker, is almost as fuel efficient (I think they pitted every 13 and 12 laps respectively), and the 908 would have won if it was more reliable. The R10 won with a margain of 4 minutes and didn't win with a lapping of the 908.
Tom Kristensen told TV reporters before the race started, that they wouldn't beat the 908 or speed (they were consistantly 3 seconds slower per lap) or fuel efficiency (that'd be made up with the faster 908), but simply on endurance. That and the fact that his team was consistantly faster during the night - a discipline that Tom excels at, and one of the reasons he's won Le Mans 8 times out of the 12 he's competed - would be 9 out of 12, if his team mate hadn't crashed after the car lost a wheel. It wasn't Capello's fault - I doubt anyone could have kept that car running to the pits after that.