Almost all the money comes from someone trying to impress someone else with how much they spent... Not being seen paying the bill would kind of defeat that purpose. Much like "why tip if you'll never see that waiter again?" So you can be seen tipping by your date, of course.
Places that actually focus on food filling a stomach, poor quality though it might be, know this, so McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc, require you to pay at the counter
Or....it could be that people interested in spending the time to go and sit down at a nice restaurant with excellent food are willing to pay for said excellent food because they respect the time and effort put into it by the chefs, restaurant owner, and wait staff. Plus you have to interact with your waiter who you would essentially be stealing from which makes it even more psychologically difficult then shoplifting.
On the other hand fast food restaurants aren't respected, their workers aren't respected, and you have very little interaction with them so it's much less psychological barrier to ripping them off.
What about Penny Arcade's Indie fundraiser where you could name your own price right down to a penny, with proceeds going to children's charity that was still rampantly pirated? I don't doubt there's a lot of things people pirate because they simply can't afford it otherwise (the necessity of them getting it non-withstanding), but I think there's also a vast number of people that will pirate because they simply don't want to be bothered to pay anything no matter what the price-point.
My Algebra II teacher was so bad I didn't take another Math class for 15 years. Starting from that point, going forward, I am a straight student who received Cs in Algebra II. Somewhere there's a disconnect. And it spread to infect everything.
It's rare that a careless error in writing can mess you up as badly as one in algebra will, but I'd say that's a golden example if I've ever seen one =)
And yet no corporation would ever dare say this publicly because they fear the public's reaction and backlash against them because we the public actually are the government when we aren't lazy and apathetic.
For life (or death) insurance it's actually more a matter of WHEN, not how or why. You get life insurance because you know if you live to be 90 you wasted money on it because you probably could have built all that money up and paid out your family more, but if you died at the age of 35 before you have made the money then your family isn't hosed. Health insurance on the other hand is almost decidedly how, what and if. You could contract something that's insanely expensive to cure or live out a pretty healthy and inexpensive life. It's a crap shoot, a lot of variables and statistics can go into it, but there's no accounting for luck and catastrophic accidents.
Not to get in the way of everyone bashing a congressmen (everyone's favorite activity) but he talked about struggling because of a direct question from a constituent angry about his salary level which he didn't choose (it's standard for all congress), and when he JUST became a congressmen (he's gotten 1 check). So he's not really just off the cuff complaining here, he's trying to defuse the situation with the questioner explaining to them that it's not like he's living high on the hog off their money but is instead paying of student loans, driving a used minivan, and paying mortgages on the residences he has to maintain in both his home state and DC (incredibly expensive). He's basically just trying to empathize with the questioner to defuse the situation which he has no control over.
You'd be singing a different tune if the earthquake damaged the control rod mechanisms and cracked the coolant lines. You have to play the risk numbers and when you detect an earthquake coming you scram for the earthquake not decide to take the risk just in case a Tsunami from hell comes and 4 days later you still can't get cooling back online.
And if switching sooner caused the boiling seawater to leave enough salt buildup behind that they could not be cooled and thus causing a meltdown you'd be screaming at them for jumping to seawater immediately. It makes sense not to take that risk until it's clear you need to. Considering the astronomical costs of failure and cleanup it's unlikely anyone is giving much weight to the cost variable for possible solutions.
mile range? Yes, if left alone in stable flight most gas RC planes can cover 6 miles before running out of gas. Controlling it would be rather difficult since you couldn't see it unless you were doing something like driving along following it.
It's actually an operational radius of 6 miles, so you're almost halfway there. While the RC is running out of gas and falling into enemy hands with it's software and sensor packages the UAV is turning around, flying all the way back to base and landing safely with minimal reserves;)
We have to do things right, because we don't have the space for "badlands".
....what? Do you think the American "badlands" are a bunch of poorly designed and inefficient strip malls or something? This doesn't even begin to make sense.
Talking about it, what's the currently acceptable term for black people? Or cripples? Or old geezers? Or stupid people? You keep changing them faster than we can keep up over here in ol' Europe.
On the flip side if you fuck up a coal mine you may have to abandon an entire town as the earth underneath it burns in a raging inferno for 50 years straight and going: Centralia, PA. Nuclear is just scarier psychologically because it's threat is invisible and slow. It's a lot easier to eventually psychologically deal with he fact that you weren't one of the 10,000 people killed (the dead ones don't have to) then it is to deal with the wondering if you're at a higher risk of cancer or if you're getting radiated right now without knowing it.
Sorta like what we do when we Fuck up coal mining? Entire town of 2,000+ had to be abandoned and has been actively burning underground for the last 50 years: Centralia, PA
No, you're missing the real story here which is they dumped water out of helicopters onto a nuclear accident and somehow produced "Cobalt-76" a never before seen isotope. Clearly the summary is just stressing the wrong portion of the well written and incredibly accurate story.
I think there are some pretty clear advantages to bounded books over scrolls especially considering they started hand-writing them long before the printing press. For example, have you ever tried reading your scroll with one hand and a drink in the other while lounging by the pool? And God help you if you drop it, that's when everything REALLY starts to unravel.
Since the marking is always applied twice per page, one at the top and one at the bottom, someone who applied the wrong classification to the document would of course do so twice per page so that argument doesn't really hold water as far as determining whether they made a mistake or not. A student who reached the wrong conclusion on a test in his work, and the bubbles in that wrong answer again on an answer key, doesn't suddenly make his answer correct by writing it twice.
You didn't need to wait for the smoke to settle, you'd just have to God forbid navigate all the way to a trusted entity's website like the Red Cross and enter all the digits of your credit card number or use your pay pal account. But for most people, golly gee, it's just too much work for trying to help out beyond sending a text.
So does that mean when my Atari finally died in 2000-something, that it's energy still lived on? Is that why I still hear Pacman and ET sounds?
Uh. No. When the machine dies so too does it's energy.
Actually the energy does live on, it's called Conservation of Energy and it's an empirical law of physics. Whatever energy was there is still there, dissipated into the environment, or converted to another form of energy. Energy doesn't just "die".
Simple. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink it.
True, but he's stressing education and not handouts because if you build a man a fire and he'll be warm for just a few hours, but if you light a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life....Though I do often get the feeling I'm not doing it right.
Last I heard the 2nd app existed in the form of a bunch of Atheist talking points to argue how Christianity is wrong. Do you really equate that as being on the same level and if so should it be removed as well? Seems like quite the muddy waters we're getting into.
They actually do this in America too, but people don't pay attention and then spout off about the police collecting money. They even do advertisements on the radios warning that police will be out in force issuing tickets for aggressive driving for the next 2 weeks and stuff like that, and there's always many a news story about how tough the enforcement campaigns will be during holiday travel seasons.
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Almost all the money comes from someone trying to impress someone else with how much they spent... Not being seen paying the bill would kind of defeat that purpose. Much like "why tip if you'll never see that waiter again?" So you can be seen tipping by your date, of course.
Places that actually focus on food filling a stomach, poor quality though it might be, know this, so McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc, require you to pay at the counter
Or....it could be that people interested in spending the time to go and sit down at a nice restaurant with excellent food are willing to pay for said excellent food because they respect the time and effort put into it by the chefs, restaurant owner, and wait staff. Plus you have to interact with your waiter who you would essentially be stealing from which makes it even more psychologically difficult then shoplifting.
On the other hand fast food restaurants aren't respected, their workers aren't respected, and you have very little interaction with them so it's much less psychological barrier to ripping them off.
What about Penny Arcade's Indie fundraiser where you could name your own price right down to a penny, with proceeds going to children's charity that was still rampantly pirated? I don't doubt there's a lot of things people pirate because they simply can't afford it otherwise (the necessity of them getting it non-withstanding), but I think there's also a vast number of people that will pirate because they simply don't want to be bothered to pay anything no matter what the price-point.
My Algebra II teacher was so bad I didn't take another Math class for 15 years. Starting from that point, going forward, I am a straight student who received Cs in Algebra II. Somewhere there's a disconnect. And it spread to infect everything.
It's rare that a careless error in writing can mess you up as badly as one in algebra will, but I'd say that's a golden example if I've ever seen one =)
And yet no corporation would ever dare say this publicly because they fear the public's reaction and backlash against them because we the public actually are the government when we aren't lazy and apathetic.
Almost forgot about that.
For life (or death) insurance it's actually more a matter of WHEN, not how or why. You get life insurance because you know if you live to be 90 you wasted money on it because you probably could have built all that money up and paid out your family more, but if you died at the age of 35 before you have made the money then your family isn't hosed. Health insurance on the other hand is almost decidedly how, what and if. You could contract something that's insanely expensive to cure or live out a pretty healthy and inexpensive life. It's a crap shoot, a lot of variables and statistics can go into it, but there's no accounting for luck and catastrophic accidents.
Not to get in the way of everyone bashing a congressmen (everyone's favorite activity) but he talked about struggling because of a direct question from a constituent angry about his salary level which he didn't choose (it's standard for all congress), and when he JUST became a congressmen (he's gotten 1 check). So he's not really just off the cuff complaining here, he's trying to defuse the situation with the questioner explaining to them that it's not like he's living high on the hog off their money but is instead paying of student loans, driving a used minivan, and paying mortgages on the residences he has to maintain in both his home state and DC (incredibly expensive). He's basically just trying to empathize with the questioner to defuse the situation which he has no control over.
You'd be singing a different tune if the earthquake damaged the control rod mechanisms and cracked the coolant lines. You have to play the risk numbers and when you detect an earthquake coming you scram for the earthquake not decide to take the risk just in case a Tsunami from hell comes and 4 days later you still can't get cooling back online.
And if switching sooner caused the boiling seawater to leave enough salt buildup behind that they could not be cooled and thus causing a meltdown you'd be screaming at them for jumping to seawater immediately. It makes sense not to take that risk until it's clear you need to. Considering the astronomical costs of failure and cleanup it's unlikely anyone is giving much weight to the cost variable for possible solutions.
mile range? Yes, if left alone in stable flight most gas RC planes can cover 6 miles before running out of gas. Controlling it would be rather difficult since you couldn't see it unless you were doing something like driving along following it.
It's actually an operational radius of 6 miles, so you're almost halfway there. While the RC is running out of gas and falling into enemy hands with it's software and sensor packages the UAV is turning around, flying all the way back to base and landing safely with minimal reserves ;)
We have to do things right, because we don't have the space for "badlands".
....what? Do you think the American "badlands" are a bunch of poorly designed and inefficient strip malls or something? This doesn't even begin to make sense.
Group one's distant descendents should be paying group two's distant descendents for the patent rights to put wheels on their new space shuttle.
Duh! That's why we're protecting ourselves by switching back to capsules that parachute down instead of land on wheels.
Talking about it, what's the currently acceptable term for black people? Or cripples? Or old geezers? Or stupid people? You keep changing them faster than we can keep up over here in ol' Europe.
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On the flip side if you fuck up a coal mine you may have to abandon an entire town as the earth underneath it burns in a raging inferno for 50 years straight and going: Centralia, PA. Nuclear is just scarier psychologically because it's threat is invisible and slow. It's a lot easier to eventually psychologically deal with he fact that you weren't one of the 10,000 people killed (the dead ones don't have to) then it is to deal with the wondering if you're at a higher risk of cancer or if you're getting radiated right now without knowing it.
Sorta like what we do when we Fuck up coal mining? Entire town of 2,000+ had to be abandoned and has been actively burning underground for the last 50 years: Centralia, PA
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No, you're missing the real story here which is they dumped water out of helicopters onto a nuclear accident and somehow produced "Cobalt-76" a never before seen isotope. Clearly the summary is just stressing the wrong portion of the well written and incredibly accurate story.
Unless it's Technetium-99m, which has a half-life of 6 hours.
At which point it decays into...wait for it....wait for it.....Technetium-99
I think there are some pretty clear advantages to bounded books over scrolls especially considering they started hand-writing them long before the printing press. For example, have you ever tried reading your scroll with one hand and a drink in the other while lounging by the pool? And God help you if you drop it, that's when everything REALLY starts to unravel.
Since the marking is always applied twice per page, one at the top and one at the bottom, someone who applied the wrong classification to the document would of course do so twice per page so that argument doesn't really hold water as far as determining whether they made a mistake or not. A student who reached the wrong conclusion on a test in his work, and the bubbles in that wrong answer again on an answer key, doesn't suddenly make his answer correct by writing it twice.
You didn't need to wait for the smoke to settle, you'd just have to God forbid navigate all the way to a trusted entity's website like the Red Cross and enter all the digits of your credit card number or use your pay pal account. But for most people, golly gee, it's just too much work for trying to help out beyond sending a text.
So does that mean when my Atari finally died in 2000-something, that it's energy still lived on? Is that why I still hear Pacman and ET sounds?
Uh. No. When the machine dies so too does it's energy.
Actually the energy does live on, it's called Conservation of Energy and it's an empirical law of physics. Whatever energy was there is still there, dissipated into the environment, or converted to another form of energy. Energy doesn't just "die".
Simple. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink it.
True, but he's stressing education and not handouts because if you build a man a fire and he'll be warm for just a few hours, but if you light a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life....Though I do often get the feeling I'm not doing it right.
Last I heard the 2nd app existed in the form of a bunch of Atheist talking points to argue how Christianity is wrong. Do you really equate that as being on the same level and if so should it be removed as well? Seems like quite the muddy waters we're getting into.
They actually do this in America too, but people don't pay attention and then spout off about the police collecting money. They even do advertisements on the radios warning that police will be out in force issuing tickets for aggressive driving for the next 2 weeks and stuff like that, and there's always many a news story about how tough the enforcement campaigns will be during holiday travel seasons.