Seems to me the flaw in this plan is that people are cheap -- you'd encourage a lot of them to sit out for the drop, drop, drop in prices in the last 12 hours. So you'd miss out on:
A) the logistical sanity of just having the plane mostly full well in advance.
B) A good chunk of the interest you make from holding on to several hundred dollars per passenger for what is often a few months.
plus, you'd probably end up with a lot of grumpy people who missed out during the last minute firesale. Sure, its their own fault, but people don't care -- you spill your fries, it's McDonald's fault, you show up late on Black Friday, it's Best Buy's fault that they only had 8 doorbuster sale HDTVs. People who missed out on a seat due to their own lack of planning would probably just rage at the airline.
With a bullet where you can literally point a laser at a spot and it hits the spot, it seems to me that the only ethical decision would be to shoot enemy troops in the kneecaps or somewhere debilitating but not life threatening.
IANAL but I think the persons to go after in that case would be the management that can't pay the parking garage land owner.
I mean if I offer to store your valuables in safes within my attic, and then fail to pay my mortgage and get evicted from my house, it seems the person at fault here would be me for losing access to the attic safes, not my bank for repossessing my house.
Sounds like somebody needs to get cracking on a Twitter-to-TCP/IP tool so you can just browse the web thorough the free Twitter service, 140 bytes at a time.
I'm guessing that miltant crazies don't really know what a hard drive is, or where the memory is stored. It's just a devil box at that point. Hell I don't think most US fundamentalist crazies would know either.
This just enforces my point -- as pointed out in the article the social benefits of drinking from time to time, and the quality of life they ensure, outweighs the biological side effects of poisoning oneself with ethanol. (well, that, and the fact that abstainers in the study were much more likely to be poor, with all the life expectancy decreases that come with it.)
I bet if you control for socioeconomic status, the gamblers would also prove to live longer for the same reasons -- while it indeed shits on their wallets, it also means they aren't uptight puritans and can roll with some punches in life and blow off stress.
Explain how people learning math would put the lottery out of business. People are gambling for an adrenaline rush, not to satisfy some mathematical equation. Guess what, some people posion their bodies with alcohol on occasion to enjoy the side effects. Some of them even have extensive education in biology and medicine.
I think its simple -- if you could get by in the past on a high school diploma (provided by public education funded by taxpayer dollars), then we offer a taxpayer funded college education to our citizens so they can compete in the present world.
Don't all of those extremophiles (that we know of, on Earth), generally start out as more mundane organisms living in less extreme conditions? Then through process of evolution, some of them adapt to to the extreme conditions in which they eventually are thrust or spread to?
I have a hard time believing life can get started independently in those sorts of extreme environments without having someplace slightly more nurturing to get a foothold. Heck, look at humans, we can survive in space due to all the neat tools we build with our brains and thumbs, but this took a lot of steps to get there -- it doesn't mean we should start looking to outer space as a likely zone for life to be found.
And to the guy about to post "Electric cars are a joke! I drive 900 miles every day you know!" well stick to your Ford Ranger with jerry cans in the back, but don't pretend that most people have any use for such range.
It seems to me the problem is not that I drive 900 miles everyday, just that I drive 900 miles maybe 2 or 3 times a year. If I can't afford multiple cars, how do we solve this so my road trip stays on track?
Seems to me that you need the vast majority of gas stations to have facilities for me to plug my car in so I can get that 80% in 30 minutes -- not as convenient as a pit stop at a gas station, but probably acceptable as long as I don't have to do it more that once or twice on my 900 mile drive (is that actually the case in 2011? I have no idea). Maybe contract with someone like McDonald's to put some outlets in their parking lot so we can eat/pee while the 30 minute charge is happening?
Bonus points if there are charging trucks or portable batteries that can give you a 20% charge or something available in places like Evanston, Wyoming. What's the current scenario if someone runs out of "fuel"?
They should just deny the cable company license to do business in the greater community if they don't just provide this for free. Problem Solved, people win. Let the cable company do their civic duty if they want to be deemed a citizen.
Yahoo Sports is decent for sports scores on a smartphone as it's coded in mostly basic HTML with little javascript, and thus loads and renders quickly on a phone browser . I've tried sports-scores apps, but they are all ad-ridden, whereas Yahoo has unobtrusive banner ads at worst.
You'd want to do it because girls like brave. If your goal is evolution and offspring, you'll find that evolutionarily-wise, you'll do quite well for yourself it you overcome (or at least posture that you've overcome) your fear of death.
I don't respond well to people trivialising death. A canned response just isn't appropriate for an atrocity of this proportion. On average, some 10000-15000 people per day were dying as a direct result of WWII. Did people just shrug and go "RIP" when someone they happened to know died? Then why is this the response when we have ten times that many dying, most from entirely preventable causes?
I would wager that most people don't feel that saying someone has "passed on" or "is resting peacefully" is trivializing that person's death. Furthermore, these sentiments are ultimately for the comfort of the living -- while they appear to upset your living self, they are quite likely comforting things to hear for his personal friends and family.
Most people do not want to confront the finality and horror of death, and to me this seems quite rational -- I'm not sure it's a bad thing. To analogize (this is Slashdot, after all):
You could compare this to the difference between acknowledging African poverty and still being able to enjoy a $120 dinner at steakhouse in an American city (and other 1st world privileges that none of us truly earned), versus literally living in rags and giving every penny you have to atone for the guilt of being born in the first world.
While I might even admire someone so dedicated to a cause and righting a very real injustice, it would be foolish to expect every average American to behave in such a manner, so its not worth getting mad at them. Just as while it's noble to confront death and conquer your fears of it, it's not right to go into a nursing home and shout at the feeble residents there about how their religion is a crutch and they are about to become non-existent entities...Or the families of who just lost a very great man, like Mr. Ritchie;-)
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Seems to me the flaw in this plan is that people are cheap -- you'd encourage a lot of them to sit out for the drop, drop, drop in prices in the last 12 hours. So you'd miss out on:
A) the logistical sanity of just having the plane mostly full well in advance.
B) A good chunk of the interest you make from holding on to several hundred dollars per passenger for what is often a few months.
plus, you'd probably end up with a lot of grumpy people who missed out during the last minute firesale. Sure, its their own fault, but people don't care -- you spill your fries, it's McDonald's fault, you show up late on Black Friday, it's Best Buy's fault that they only had 8 doorbuster sale HDTVs. People who missed out on a seat due to their own lack of planning would probably just rage at the airline.
With a bullet where you can literally point a laser at a spot and it hits the spot, it seems to me that the only ethical decision would be to shoot enemy troops in the kneecaps or somewhere debilitating but not life threatening.
IANAL but I think the persons to go after in that case would be the management that can't pay the parking garage land owner.
I mean if I offer to store your valuables in safes within my attic, and then fail to pay my mortgage and get evicted from my house, it seems the person at fault here would be me for losing access to the attic safes, not my bank for repossessing my house.
Sounds like somebody needs to get cracking on a Twitter-to-TCP/IP tool so you can just browse the web thorough the free Twitter service, 140 bytes at a time.
The latency will probably be a bitch, though.
Presumably it would be the last, or near to last, edits made before you abandoned your Wikipedia account?
No one ever, ever, cites a diff when they are bitching about Wikipedia on Slashdot.
Where do you live?
I'm guessing that miltant crazies don't really know what a hard drive is, or where the memory is stored. It's just a devil box at that point. Hell I don't think most US fundamentalist crazies would know either.
AGING is just the American English form of AGEING -- both are acceptable.
...I sometimes watch both MSNBC and Fox to be amused by both extremes.
MSNBC and Fox are not somehow equivalent extremes. They represent the corporate crazy right and the corporate center-right.
So which one are you talking about?
Oh, don't worry, people with Wikipedia horror stories almost exclusively never actually back their stories up with concrete examples and links.
This just enforces my point -- as pointed out in the article the social benefits of drinking from time to time, and the quality of life they ensure, outweighs the biological side effects of poisoning oneself with ethanol. (well, that, and the fact that abstainers in the study were much more likely to be poor, with all the life expectancy decreases that come with it.)
I bet if you control for socioeconomic status, the gamblers would also prove to live longer for the same reasons -- while it indeed shits on their wallets, it also means they aren't uptight puritans and can roll with some punches in life and blow off stress.
Explain how people learning math would put the lottery out of business. People are gambling for an adrenaline rush, not to satisfy some mathematical equation. Guess what, some people posion their bodies with alcohol on occasion to enjoy the side effects. Some of them even have extensive education in biology and medicine.
What's wrong with Priuses?
So what do you propose we do about this?
I think its simple -- if you could get by in the past on a high school diploma (provided by public education funded by taxpayer dollars), then we offer a taxpayer funded college education to our citizens so they can compete in the present world.
Don't all of those extremophiles (that we know of, on Earth), generally start out as more mundane organisms living in less extreme conditions? Then through process of evolution, some of them adapt to to the extreme conditions in which they eventually are thrust or spread to?
I have a hard time believing life can get started independently in those sorts of extreme environments without having someplace slightly more nurturing to get a foothold. Heck, look at humans, we can survive in space due to all the neat tools we build with our brains and thumbs, but this took a lot of steps to get there -- it doesn't mean we should start looking to outer space as a likely zone for life to be found.
Still a heck of a lot of hours, but 75mph is pretty common out here in the west, that makes it a bit more bearable.
And to the guy about to post "Electric cars are a joke! I drive 900 miles every day you know!" well stick to your Ford Ranger with jerry cans in the back, but don't pretend that most people have any use for such range.
It seems to me the problem is not that I drive 900 miles everyday, just that I drive 900 miles maybe 2 or 3 times a year. If I can't afford multiple cars, how do we solve this so my road trip stays on track?
Seems to me that you need the vast majority of gas stations to have facilities for me to plug my car in so I can get that 80% in 30 minutes -- not as convenient as a pit stop at a gas station, but probably acceptable as long as I don't have to do it more that once or twice on my 900 mile drive (is that actually the case in 2011? I have no idea). Maybe contract with someone like McDonald's to put some outlets in their parking lot so we can eat/pee while the 30 minute charge is happening?
Bonus points if there are charging trucks or portable batteries that can give you a 20% charge or something available in places like Evanston, Wyoming. What's the current scenario if someone runs out of "fuel"?
$280,000 on cable bill for about 20 prisons.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20081204_12_0_OKLAHO673257
They should just deny the cable company license to do business in the greater community if they don't just provide this for free. Problem Solved, people win. Let the cable company do their civic duty if they want to be deemed a citizen.
2 pounds heavier and a 16:9 aspect ratio -- also 1366x768 @ 16 inches, what a joy.
I think you underestimate how much those non-engineering majors are drinking.
Yahoo Sports is decent for sports scores on a smartphone as it's coded in mostly basic HTML with little javascript, and thus loads and renders quickly on a phone browser . I've tried sports-scores apps, but they are all ad-ridden, whereas Yahoo has unobtrusive banner ads at worst.
You'd want to do it because girls like brave. If your goal is evolution and offspring, you'll find that evolutionarily-wise, you'll do quite well for yourself it you overcome (or at least posture that you've overcome) your fear of death.
I don't respond well to people trivialising death. A canned response just isn't appropriate for an atrocity of this proportion. On average, some 10000-15000 people per day were dying as a direct result of WWII. Did people just shrug and go "RIP" when someone they happened to know died? Then why is this the response when we have ten times that many dying, most from entirely preventable causes?
I would wager that most people don't feel that saying someone has "passed on" or "is resting peacefully" is trivializing that person's death. Furthermore, these sentiments are ultimately for the comfort of the living -- while they appear to upset your living self, they are quite likely comforting things to hear for his personal friends and family.
Most people do not want to confront the finality and horror of death, and to me this seems quite rational -- I'm not sure it's a bad thing. To analogize (this is Slashdot, after all):
You could compare this to the difference between acknowledging African poverty and still being able to enjoy a $120 dinner at steakhouse in an American city (and other 1st world privileges that none of us truly earned), versus literally living in rags and giving every penny you have to atone for the guilt of being born in the first world.
While I might even admire someone so dedicated to a cause and righting a very real injustice, it would be foolish to expect every average American to behave in such a manner, so its not worth getting mad at them. Just as while it's noble to confront death and conquer your fears of it, it's not right to go into a nursing home and shout at the feeble residents there about how their religion is a crutch and they are about to become non-existent entities. ..Or the families of who just lost a very great man, like Mr. Ritchie ;-)
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Are you a robot, autistic, or just a sociopath?