What ballpark figure does transit cost anyway? 1&1 sells a web hosting plan with 1.2TB transfer for $5/month. I suspect that price is subsidized by their low volume users, though. TW is in a different position from a web hoster because they have to build out bandwidth for backhaul to the peering points.
There's actually lots of ways to tweak the financial incentives to remove the profit motive: - all traffic fine revenue goes to the state, none to city - no per-ticket fees for camera operator - longer yellows strictly enforced (longer yellow lights make cameras unprofitable)
How big is the CO2 processor on a spacecraft or submarine? It processes the respiration of a few humans. Now what size would it have to be for a coal power plant exhaust?
The T8 fluorescent tubes used in commercial buildings contain far more mercury than a CFL, and I'd say we've learned to handle them safely. The additional mercury from CFLs is minuscule, even if we assume a slightly higher percentage are disposed of improperly.
This is rich. I shouldn't be so sensitive about the existence of supernatural souls and being the creation of an Old Man in the sky (which you argue by appeal to common practice/common belief), and yet you dismiss the work of peer-reviewed scientific journals as fantasy.
I don't know about you, but Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles has a very preachy vibe, stuff like "We are all God's creations" and "don't mess with powers you don't understand".
Yes, you've certainly explained the need for jargon, whether it's legalese or technical. Although jargon is confusing and excludes non-experts, plain language is just too ambiguous. Ever had a non-technical person explain a computer problem to you in "plain language"? Yeah, it's like that.
and not only that, *rabid* supporters too! But seriously primaries are no contest either. I believe more members of Congress are replaced by death in office than by primary challenges (I can't remember the exact stat and can't google it. It was either "by death in office" or "by death in office and retirement").
Given the breakage rate on DS hardware, I'm sure Nintendo does a brisk business in replacement sales too. Kids and delicate electronics don't mix. Don't get me wrong, the build quality on the DS is fine for a careful adult owner, but kid-proofing is entirely different.
Iowa's disproportionate power mostly doesn't come from the Electoral College. It comes from being first in the caucus and primary calendar. There's a tremendous amount of anticipation and hype that goes into the Iowa caucus from being the first contest of the Presidential campaign. The national popular vote won't change that.
You're right about the control unit. A slight loss of accuracy in the ALU is one thing, missing a branch or fetching the wrong memory address is something else entirely.
These kinds of criminal prosecutions are a uniquely Italian phenomenon, and I'm not surprised at all. One case I remember off the top of my head was Frank Williams, *owner* of the Williams F1 team faced criminal charges in the death of Ayrton Senna at Imola.
Give the telecom execs the same deal we give the drug lords. Immunity for full cooperation and testimony against the higher-ups who ordered the spying. I don't care about the civil fines for illegal wiretaps either. If the EFF and ACLU cases get killed, the trail stops cold. That's the real problem with immunity.
That's not so bad because you can look at a kJ or kWh of energy as "the ability to do stuff" and it becomes a good proxy for economic activity. If oil runs out and we have no other fuel, the economy will go into hyperdeflation no matter what. You can mask it by inflating currency artificially, but with less fuel we'll have less economic productivity.
I'm leaning towards that too. The IT and technology job market is saturated, and it's been in relatively hard times since the dotcom crash and outsourcing boom. CS majors now are more the hardcore geeks, and those people tend to skew overwhelmingly male.
Sounds about right. Try googling Katrina Leung. She was a supposed FBI informant, but she was sleeping with her FBI handler and playing him for info to send back to the Chinese. What a jackass!
No, that was willful ignorance because their paycheck depends on selling advertising. If we (meaning the US Consumer) stops buying stuff, TV stations can't sell ads. It was pretty clear even at the time that we could only buy so much stuff because we were borrowing against the real estate bubble.
How many black people voted for him simply because he has dark skin?
Very few. The Democrats have a lock on the black vote already. Any other Democrat would've done about as well. Instead of blaming the other side, maybe you should look at what the Republican party did to turn off those voters, like maybe race-baiting attacks from their media proxies, i.e. Rush, Hannity, Glenn Beck, etc.
Diebold's voting systems division was an acquisition of Global Election Systems. The ATM and votings systems share nothing but the brand. They also spun off their voting systems to a new company called Premier Election Systems, I suspect because all the scandal was hurting their brand in other lines of business.
It's not just malpractice suits but personal injury lawsuits too. If you think personal injury suits are out of control, you should support universal healthcare. People in other countries just don't need to sue each other to pay medical bills. With good disability insurance, you don't need to sue for lost work either. The U.S. culture of litigation is a direct consequence of our private health insurance system.
It's not just malpractice lawsuits but personal injury suits too. If you think personal injury suits are out of control, you should support universal healthcare. The vast majority of lawsuits are for medical expenses. The pain and suffering claims are just padding to pay the lawyer's contingency fee. In other countries, people just don't sue each other for medical bills. If you have good disability insurance, you don't need to sue for lost work either.
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It was a different world of communications back then. Most homes didn't even have answering machines until the late 70's/early 80's. Businesses paid for answering services with live operators. If you weren't home to answer the phone, you didn't get the message.
So the real estate bubble would've kept inflating indefinitely with the Republicans in Congress? I don't think so. Real estate had already peaked by Nov. 2006. It just took another year and a half for the bad money to make its way through the markets, and thanks to deregulation and the proliferation of exotic loans and investmentvehicles, the real estate crash took down *all* the credit markets.
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Mobile broadband providers have much more restrictive limits on bandwidth usage and P2P. Even "unlimited" plans have a cap around 5GB.
What ballpark figure does transit cost anyway? 1&1 sells a web hosting plan with 1.2TB transfer for $5/month. I suspect that price is subsidized by their low volume users, though. TW is in a different position from a web hoster because they have to build out bandwidth for backhaul to the peering points.
There's actually lots of ways to tweak the financial incentives to remove the profit motive:
- all traffic fine revenue goes to the state, none to city
- no per-ticket fees for camera operator
- longer yellows strictly enforced (longer yellow lights make cameras unprofitable)
How big is the CO2 processor on a spacecraft or submarine? It processes the respiration of a few humans. Now what size would it have to be for a coal power plant exhaust?
The T8 fluorescent tubes used in commercial buildings contain far more mercury than a CFL, and I'd say we've learned to handle them safely. The additional mercury from CFLs is minuscule, even if we assume a slightly higher percentage are disposed of improperly.
This is rich. I shouldn't be so sensitive about the existence of supernatural souls and being the creation of an Old Man in the sky (which you argue by appeal to common practice/common belief), and yet you dismiss the work of peer-reviewed scientific journals as fantasy.
I don't know about you, but Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles has a very preachy vibe, stuff like "We are all God's creations" and "don't mess with powers you don't understand".
Yes, you've certainly explained the need for jargon, whether it's legalese or technical. Although jargon is confusing and excludes non-experts, plain language is just too ambiguous. Ever had a non-technical person explain a computer problem to you in "plain language"? Yeah, it's like that.
and not only that, *rabid* supporters too! But seriously primaries are no contest either. I believe more members of Congress are replaced by death in office than by primary challenges (I can't remember the exact stat and can't google it. It was either "by death in office" or "by death in office and retirement").
Given the breakage rate on DS hardware, I'm sure Nintendo does a brisk business in replacement sales too. Kids and delicate electronics don't mix. Don't get me wrong, the build quality on the DS is fine for a careful adult owner, but kid-proofing is entirely different.
Iowa's disproportionate power mostly doesn't come from the Electoral College. It comes from being first in the caucus and primary calendar. There's a tremendous amount of anticipation and hype that goes into the Iowa caucus from being the first contest of the Presidential campaign. The national popular vote won't change that.
You're right about the control unit. A slight loss of accuracy in the ALU is one thing, missing a branch or fetching the wrong memory address is something else entirely.
These kinds of criminal prosecutions are a uniquely Italian phenomenon, and I'm not surprised at all. One case I remember off the top of my head was Frank Williams, *owner* of the Williams F1 team faced criminal charges in the death of Ayrton Senna at Imola.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article1055305.ece
What a deal the CEOs got. When drug dealers get immunity, it's only for full cooperation and testimony.
Give the telecom execs the same deal we give the drug lords. Immunity for full cooperation and testimony against the higher-ups who ordered the spying. I don't care about the civil fines for illegal wiretaps either. If the EFF and ACLU cases get killed, the trail stops cold. That's the real problem with immunity.
That's not so bad because you can look at a kJ or kWh of energy as "the ability to do stuff" and it becomes a good proxy for economic activity. If oil runs out and we have no other fuel, the economy will go into hyperdeflation no matter what. You can mask it by inflating currency artificially, but with less fuel we'll have less economic productivity.
I'm leaning towards that too. The IT and technology job market is saturated, and it's been in relatively hard times since the dotcom crash and outsourcing boom. CS majors now are more the hardcore geeks, and those people tend to skew overwhelmingly male.
Sounds about right. Try googling Katrina Leung. She was a supposed FBI informant, but she was sleeping with her FBI handler and playing him for info to send back to the Chinese. What a jackass!
No, that was willful ignorance because their paycheck depends on selling advertising. If we (meaning the US Consumer) stops buying stuff, TV stations can't sell ads. It was pretty clear even at the time that we could only buy so much stuff because we were borrowing against the real estate bubble.
How many black people voted for him simply because he has dark skin?
Very few. The Democrats have a lock on the black vote already. Any other Democrat would've done about as well. Instead of blaming the other side, maybe you should look at what the Republican party did to turn off those voters, like maybe race-baiting attacks from their media proxies, i.e. Rush, Hannity, Glenn Beck, etc.
Diebold's voting systems division was an acquisition of Global Election Systems. The ATM and votings systems share nothing but the brand. They also spun off their voting systems to a new company called Premier Election Systems, I suspect because all the scandal was hurting their brand in other lines of business.
It's not just malpractice suits but personal injury lawsuits too. If you think personal injury suits are out of control, you should support universal healthcare. People in other countries just don't need to sue each other to pay medical bills. With good disability insurance, you don't need to sue for lost work either. The U.S. culture of litigation is a direct consequence of our private health insurance system.
It's not just malpractice lawsuits but personal injury suits too. If you think personal injury suits are out of control, you should support universal healthcare. The vast majority of lawsuits are for medical expenses. The pain and suffering claims are just padding to pay the lawyer's contingency fee. In other countries, people just don't sue each other for medical bills. If you have good disability insurance, you don't need to sue for lost work either.
It was a different world of communications back then. Most homes didn't even have answering machines until the late 70's/early 80's. Businesses paid for answering services with live operators. If you weren't home to answer the phone, you didn't get the message.
So the real estate bubble would've kept inflating indefinitely with the Republicans in Congress? I don't think so. Real estate had already peaked by Nov. 2006. It just took another year and a half for the bad money to make its way through the markets, and thanks to deregulation and the proliferation of exotic loans and investment vehicles, the real estate crash took down *all* the credit markets.