People generally hang towels soaked in ice water around their neck. We do this sailing down wind here in Texas (no shade, no apparent wind due to the speed and direction of the boat) in the summer. Your neck has two giant arteries in it and quite a bit of blood flow, not to mention the ice water soaks your shirt and gives enormous evaporative cooling. The icewater gives immediate relief and the evaporation keeps you cool for 45 min or more. AFAIK this is a pretty common practice in hot areas.
I have a lot of buddies that talk big about buying an android tablet, but none of them ever end up buying one. Though they have no problem dropping $300 on a guitar, netbook, new graphics card or ebook reader. For whatever reason they don't want an Apple product but at the same time they want an iPad experience. But they don't want an Android tablet.
Someone is going to have to prove definitively that the android tablet experience doesn't suck. Nobody's convinced me or my buddies on that topic yet. E3 2012 is going to be an interesting event because Android might finally have a product people actually want to buy.
You just factor it in to part of your education costs. Green kids straight from college have no idea how to act or behave in an office, or how the hierarchy is structured. If anything the value in an internship is that when you get your first real job, you don't look like you have no idea what you're doing and you don't talk out of turn. There's a reason why every job posting on the planet says "Job applicant must have 2 years work experience". Let someone else whip them in to shape in exchange for making coffee and copies. A company gets free labor, and you get a gold star on your CV that says "this unemployed college grad has at least been potty trained".
At the dog pound which one, is more likely to get taken home? All other things being equal - the one who only pees outside, or the one that pees on you when you pick him up?
Except that all of those except Lake Caddo are actually shallow reservoirs built in the last century. i.e. I've personally seen the dam of roughly 20 of those up close and personal. You might want to brush up on your reading comprehension, because the other guy that replied to you is spot on.
For some reason no-one is willing to build decent houses/flats in English cities. Many European cities have large areas of 4/5/6 storey residential buildings, but not here.
For whatever reason, the closer to the city center, and the lower the population density, the higher the value of the property. In addition to that, someone who can afford to occupy a piece of land that would normally house ten families a) usually doesn't cause problems for the landlord b) often times makes improvements to the property and c) by reputation keeps or raises the property value. You'd have to be astoundingly bad at business (or born in to money) to invite more tenants that cause more problems and expect you to maintain the property out of pocket, who at the same time lower the value of your investment, rather than keep the status quo.
Water is abundant, if you know where to look, and are willing to consider drainage retention ponds, canals, and other bodies of fresh water.
There are no natural bodies of water in Texas, though. Except that "lake" that sits on our eastern border, far from any major population centers. People forget that the Mississippi is notable in the fact that it's our only truly navigable river on the entire continent. It's also worth pointing out that Dallas is only 100 miles north of Cairo, Egypt. The main difference here (as I try and keep my tomato plants alive in the backyard in stifling 100F+ heat with no rain in three weeks) is that we don't have pyramids, we only have the Federal Reserve Bank and Bank of America Plaza building.
That's Arkansas. Their houses are even less expensive, and you might even get a 4 bedroom for that price. The downside is that you have to endure your neighbor field dressing a deer in the driveway every Sunday afternoon.
You can get a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre in a respectable neighborhood for $130,000 (that's £90,000 in metric dollars for you british types). Sure, we won't have enough water for our population when the apocalypse comes, but in the mean time 3 bedrooms here is considered on the small side.
The region (well, 700 miles to the south) has been continiously inhabited by pyramid building tribes for the last 1200-2000 years. If anything, they would assume that this is simply an extension, or peak of that civilization. Assuming they find it. It is, afterall, buried inside of a mountain in one of the more inhospitable parts of the country.
A bachelor's degree, depending on where you go and what you major in, is somewhere between 114 (photography, russian literature) and 145 (aeronautical engineering, pre-law) credit hours, each class being 3-4 credit hours (3hrs + 1hr lab). This is roughly 4 years @ 15 credit hours per semester for a total of 8 semesters.
Some majors only have 30 hours (two semesters) worth of major specific required classes, with another 30 hours of major related electives, the rest being general education and unrelated electives.
In 2002 the engineering curriculum at my school had something like 90 hours of major specific required classes, 15 hours of major related elective classes and 30 hours of general education. If you wanted to take extra electives you had to stay for a 5th year (Assuming you finished on time).
This is why people make fun of liberal arts majors. In the US most state schools charge you (undergrad) the same per credit hour wether you're taking chemical engineering 4404 or intro to photography 101. You spend the same amount of money and put in the same amount of class hours and one man makes $100,000, and the other gets a piece of paper certifying he showed up to class more or less on time for four years that qualifies them to be a manager of a mall bookstore.
...or $1 worth of TF2 items and $4 worth of games.
You're either a bad troll, or incredibly dense. Valve has for a long time had a walled garden around users with no financial stake in their steam account. This prevents hacking and spamming, etc. Once you have a paid game in steam, you have a lot less incentive (or, it becomes much more expensive) to hack/phish steam accounts from other accounts. It's also why VAC games are a lot less prone to hacking - why risk your account full of multiplayer games worth $20, 50, $150 for cheating on one multiplayer game? Sure if you cheat and get caught you'll still be able to play on non-vac servers.... but that's where the rest of the player base wants you to stay, anyways.
They've already introduced packs that provide an additional benefit for having all of them items in a particular pack. if you don't have the entire pack, that benefit is not realized. So there might not be a gun that clearly bests anything else, but there are packs that in practice you have to pay for, even if theoretically you could randomly get them through drops. Additionally there's a discount in the shop for these packs. It's not a huge bonus, but it is there. Hats are given away so rarely that you might as well pay for the hat.
But I'm not bitter. I bought the game for $20 in early 2008 and definitely feel like I've gotten my twenty bucks worth. Especially compared to a $40 multiplayer game like brink whose online community had died within the first two weeks.
That's the problem with bleeding edge technology. It's priced to recoup the R&D that went in to it. Also 400lbs of lithium ion batteries isn't cheap. The average laptop battery is about half a pound and costs $50 at e-retail, and there isn't much margin in that.
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Of course. What do you think we are, philistines?
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There are some people who have converted church organ pedeals into a digital interface:
That's right! AND it gives you worse gas milage, and in cars made before 1994-1998 (reports vary wildly) it can accelerate engine part wear. No wonder the price of food (i.e. corn, a staple of Latin America) has gone up damn near 800%. Food as fuel seems to only work with sugarcane/beet. Even then it seems wasteful.
The wikipedia article says that on most lines, the expected payback period on the high speed lines is anywhere from 6-16 years. That's incredible. That means the child of the man who went to work on the railroad to support his child in the first place will see the rail paid off by the time he is old enough to work. Here in Dallas, Texas my grandchildren's children will still be paying tolls on the highways they have built here in the last 15 years (99 year exclusive tollway lease to a private company).
Third would country, super power, flush with cash and need to maintain a 9% annual growth? I have a solution for you! Just look at the WPA during the great depression of the 1930's!
The WPA pretty much built out all of our existing hydro-electric power, roads, national parks, trails, firehouses etc. It was fucking expensive, but it kept the country from falling into ruin and put food on the plates for something like 25% of the nation for a decade.
If there's been one proven long term investment that will last hundreds of years, it's rail lines. They're the roman roads of our time.
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People generally hang towels soaked in ice water around their neck. We do this sailing down wind here in Texas (no shade, no apparent wind due to the speed and direction of the boat) in the summer. Your neck has two giant arteries in it and quite a bit of blood flow, not to mention the ice water soaks your shirt and gives enormous evaporative cooling. The icewater gives immediate relief and the evaporation keeps you cool for 45 min or more. AFAIK this is a pretty common practice in hot areas.
I'm imagining a 3 year old filling the holes on an electric socket with the blue (conductive) playdoh. ZAP.
I have a lot of buddies that talk big about buying an android tablet, but none of them ever end up buying one. Though they have no problem dropping $300 on a guitar, netbook, new graphics card or ebook reader. For whatever reason they don't want an Apple product but at the same time they want an iPad experience. But they don't want an Android tablet.
Someone is going to have to prove definitively that the android tablet experience doesn't suck. Nobody's convinced me or my buddies on that topic yet. E3 2012 is going to be an interesting event because Android might finally have a product people actually want to buy.
You just factor it in to part of your education costs. Green kids straight from college have no idea how to act or behave in an office, or how the hierarchy is structured. If anything the value in an internship is that when you get your first real job, you don't look like you have no idea what you're doing and you don't talk out of turn. There's a reason why every job posting on the planet says "Job applicant must have 2 years work experience". Let someone else whip them in to shape in exchange for making coffee and copies. A company gets free labor, and you get a gold star on your CV that says "this unemployed college grad has at least been potty trained".
At the dog pound which one, is more likely to get taken home? All other things being equal - the one who only pees outside, or the one that pees on you when you pick him up?
And the same in Manhattan. There are more acres in Texas than there are humans in England. Considerably more illegal laborers in construction as well.
Nice copypasta.
Except that all of those except Lake Caddo are actually shallow reservoirs built in the last century. i.e. I've personally seen the dam of roughly 20 of those up close and personal. You might want to brush up on your reading comprehension, because the other guy that replied to you is spot on.
For whatever reason, the closer to the city center, and the lower the population density, the higher the value of the property. In addition to that, someone who can afford to occupy a piece of land that would normally house ten families a) usually doesn't cause problems for the landlord b) often times makes improvements to the property and c) by reputation keeps or raises the property value. You'd have to be astoundingly bad at business (or born in to money) to invite more tenants that cause more problems and expect you to maintain the property out of pocket, who at the same time lower the value of your investment, rather than keep the status quo.
There are no natural bodies of water in Texas, though. Except that "lake" that sits on our eastern border, far from any major population centers. People forget that the Mississippi is notable in the fact that it's our only truly navigable river on the entire continent. It's also worth pointing out that Dallas is only 100 miles north of Cairo, Egypt. The main difference here (as I try and keep my tomato plants alive in the backyard in stifling 100F+ heat with no rain in three weeks) is that we don't have pyramids, we only have the Federal Reserve Bank and Bank of America Plaza building.
That's Arkansas. Their houses are even less expensive, and you might even get a 4 bedroom for that price. The downside is that you have to endure your neighbor field dressing a deer in the driveway every Sunday afternoon.
You can get a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre in a respectable neighborhood for $130,000 (that's £90,000 in metric dollars for you british types). Sure, we won't have enough water for our population when the apocalypse comes, but in the mean time 3 bedrooms here is considered on the small side.
the difference is that you have a black, oppressive cloud hanging over your search experience
I, for one, welcome our solar powered, glass road building overlords.
how did this name ever make it through marketing? are they that dense?
being nerds, maybe call it ++ or plus plus at least? i get that they're trying to knock off the "like" feature, but really....
Apparently they taught you how to use straw man arguments at your liberal arts college.
The region (well, 700 miles to the south) has been continiously inhabited by pyramid building tribes for the last 1200-2000 years. If anything, they would assume that this is simply an extension, or peak of that civilization. Assuming they find it. It is, afterall, buried inside of a mountain in one of the more inhospitable parts of the country.
A bachelor's degree, depending on where you go and what you major in, is somewhere between 114 (photography, russian literature) and 145 (aeronautical engineering, pre-law) credit hours, each class being 3-4 credit hours (3hrs + 1hr lab). This is roughly 4 years @ 15 credit hours per semester for a total of 8 semesters.
Some majors only have 30 hours (two semesters) worth of major specific required classes, with another 30 hours of major related electives, the rest being general education and unrelated electives.
In 2002 the engineering curriculum at my school had something like 90 hours of major specific required classes, 15 hours of major related elective classes and 30 hours of general education. If you wanted to take extra electives you had to stay for a 5th year (Assuming you finished on time).
This is why people make fun of liberal arts majors. In the US most state schools charge you (undergrad) the same per credit hour wether you're taking chemical engineering 4404 or intro to photography 101. You spend the same amount of money and put in the same amount of class hours and one man makes $100,000, and the other gets a piece of paper certifying he showed up to class more or less on time for four years that qualifies them to be a manager of a mall bookstore.
...or $1 worth of TF2 items and $4 worth of games.
You're either a bad troll, or incredibly dense. Valve has for a long time had a walled garden around users with no financial stake in their steam account. This prevents hacking and spamming, etc. Once you have a paid game in steam, you have a lot less incentive (or, it becomes much more expensive) to hack/phish steam accounts from other accounts. It's also why VAC games are a lot less prone to hacking - why risk your account full of multiplayer games worth $20, 50, $150 for cheating on one multiplayer game? Sure if you cheat and get caught you'll still be able to play on non-vac servers.... but that's where the rest of the player base wants you to stay, anyways.
They've already introduced packs that provide an additional benefit for having all of them items in a particular pack. if you don't have the entire pack, that benefit is not realized. So there might not be a gun that clearly bests anything else, but there are packs that in practice you have to pay for, even if theoretically you could randomly get them through drops. Additionally there's a discount in the shop for these packs. It's not a huge bonus, but it is there. Hats are given away so rarely that you might as well pay for the hat.
But I'm not bitter. I bought the game for $20 in early 2008 and definitely feel like I've gotten my twenty bucks worth. Especially compared to a $40 multiplayer game like brink whose online community had died within the first two weeks.
That's the problem with bleeding edge technology. It's priced to recoup the R&D that went in to it. Also 400lbs of lithium ion batteries isn't cheap. The average laptop battery is about half a pound and costs $50 at e-retail, and there isn't much margin in that.
Of course. What do you think we are, philistines?
There are some people who have converted church organ pedeals into a digital interface:
http://nearlydeaf.com/?p=827
If anything, the fact that google is going to these lengths underlines the fact that infrastructure upgrades can be and are highly profitable.
That's right! AND it gives you worse gas milage, and in cars made before 1994-1998 (reports vary wildly) it can accelerate engine part wear. No wonder the price of food (i.e. corn, a staple of Latin America) has gone up damn near 800%. Food as fuel seems to only work with sugarcane/beet. Even then it seems wasteful.
The wikipedia article says that on most lines, the expected payback period on the high speed lines is anywhere from 6-16 years. That's incredible. That means the child of the man who went to work on the railroad to support his child in the first place will see the rail paid off by the time he is old enough to work. Here in Dallas, Texas my grandchildren's children will still be paying tolls on the highways they have built here in the last 15 years (99 year exclusive tollway lease to a private company).
Third would country, super power, flush with cash and need to maintain a 9% annual growth? I have a solution for you! Just look at the WPA during the great depression of the 1930's!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
The WPA pretty much built out all of our existing hydro-electric power, roads, national parks, trails, firehouses etc. It was fucking expensive, but it kept the country from falling into ruin and put food on the plates for something like 25% of the nation for a decade.
If there's been one proven long term investment that will last hundreds of years, it's rail lines. They're the roman roads of our time.