For many women, it helps regulate what can be a very erratic menstrual cycle. Some women also experience a lightening of the cycle because the pill evens out their hormones. At the time, it was also by far the most effective method of birth control, as the proper use of the pill is much more common than proper use of condoms and even when it's not quite properly used, it's still much more effective than no condom at all.
I'm curious how they were removed. I have an issue with floaters in my left eye; while they're not always consciously visible, in bright light such as daylight, they can become a distracting nuisance. I was under the impression that there's no way at all to ever deal with them. Even if I have to wait for eye disease (which runs in the family) to set in, I may at least have some bright spot to look forward to (so to speak).
I can indeed ignore the Bill of Rights and remain a nation of laws, because it's not law. The Bill of Rights is a set of handy suggestions, but as law it fails miserably- and as I've said, every single Supreme Court justice since, well, practically forever, agrees.
The Constitution disagrees with you. From Article VI, Clause 2:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land
The Bill of Rights are a part of the Constitution, and hence they are law. They are neither statutory nor regulatory law, and hence do not spell out all the details of what is and is not allowed, but they were never intended to perform that function. Their purpose is to provide a framework within which statutory and regulatory law may be constructed.
Unless it was solidified lava, that seems unlikely. From some quick searches, it seems that the lower range of temperatures for molten lava is ~700 C, while aluminum melts at ~660 C.
Capping their per diem might hurt them more than removing their salaries. They get both. As of 2007, most legislators receive ~$113,000 per year, and then $162 per diem for each day they're in session (one or both may have gone up this year). Taking away their perks seems to get them moving faster than taking away their salary.
The major fault of the California system is that there is no real changeover. The system is so rigged that it's virtually impossible for any state legislative or House seat to change parties. The state Assembly and Senate are locked in to provide exactly (2/3 - 1) vote for the Democrats, leaving the rest to Republicans. This prevents the Democrats from having complete power (which would result in the populace demanding a new redistricting), but means they only need to get one or two Republicans to cave in to get what they want. This has allowed California to build up a 40% increase in revenues in five years, while at the same time the population increased by 4%, the Consumer Price Index increased by about 19%, and spending increased by 44%. Had the state been capped by the growth in population and CPI (or some other inflation rate), it would be spending only 24% more than it had when Schwarzeneggar was elected, and would have had plenty of money in a rainy-day fund to cover the more than 10% shortfall that it now has.
On top of this, the term limits that were voted into place (including by me) have turned out to be a colossal mistake. The legislature was once a fairly cordial place where most people settled into their seat, keeping constituents happy for a couple of decades, a few finding some ambition and targeting statewide or national office; It's now become a staring contest of ideologues, where no one budges on anything because it affects their chances to rotate into the other house or on to a more competitive office. It used to be that legislators had to learn to compromise because their opponent wouldn't just be there next year or next term -- they'd be there 10 or perhaps even 20 years later, and political memories can go back a very long time.
The current system has survived court challenges, but it's expected that without a new process brought in early, the 2011 redistricting is going to get contentious and end up in court for a drawn-out battle before the court imposes its own solution.
You're almost right. It's not that there's less money to be made, but more money to be lost. Many people will install the early version of the patches, but compatibility problems may not have been found by Microsoft's labs, and they'll be faced with increased calls and further bad press about how a "bad" patch was released, when in fact it was still a QA-level patch and not really ready for release.
Oh, this guy doesn't have a leg to stand on. I was merely pointing out that there are places where employers can't make claims on private work done by employees.
No one has said that Iran (or Libya before them) were prohibited from developing civilian nuclear energy. There's lots of help for that, as demonstrated by the recently-concluded talks with India to help develop the civilian nuclear program there.
However, signatories to the NNPT are required to be completely open about their civilian reactors and facilities. They are also, with the exception of the admitted nuclear-armed states, prohibited from undertaking anything that would lead to a nuclear weapons program. Failure to follow the requirements to the letter tends to raise suspicion.
And just to be pedantic, the US has about 3700 strategic nuclear warheads in active service.
Even for civilians, the ownership of works created off-site still varies by state. In California, it's explicitly stated that, with the exception of a few well-delineated items, if you don't create it on employer time, premises, and/or equipment, and especially if it's not something that the employer already does, then you own it. I've had to bring this up to a couple of employers in the past, and had letters added to my file regarding it to ensure that they know that I know it.
The Ares V is planned to have nearly five times the lift capacity to LEO than the Falcon 9, with a planned 130 metric ton capacity compared to the latter's 27 metric tons. The Falcon 9 will be a direct replacement in terms of payload mass for the shuttle (itself a heavy lift launch system at a little over 24 metric tons), but does not really compare to the Ares V.
I take my data from the financials that they file every quarter and available through, for example, Google Finance. I have little else to go on.
But to your other point about grocery store profit margins, where is a profit margin acceptable? Do you object to the profit margins that I mentioned for the listed software companies?
It's also important to note that vacation for them is not what we usually think of as vacation. Most of them spend at least some time in their local offices while they're gone. Yes, they do wander off with their families (or mistresses) to faraway places some of the time, but other times are spent on meeting with voters (and lobbyists) locally. It's at least a semblance of an effort to keep in touch with their electors.
What do you feel is a fair profit? The average net profit made by the major oil companies is about 9%. The following companies make profit levels that exceed that (based on most recent ratio of net income over total revenue):
IBM (10%)
Red Hat (11%)
Sybase (11%)
Sun Microsystems (12%)
Oracle (28%)
At what point do you call for a windfall tax on these companies?
Cycle the water through so that you're returning water that has a higher salt concentration, but hasn't yet reached the point of brine. If you can put this in a place with relatively fast currents, the return water may dissipate fast enough that there is essentially no overall effect.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm imagining a partially-self-powering desalination setup that cycles through seawater (filtered for particulates), extracts the hydrogen and oxygen, combines it in a fuel cell (which power is then cycled back into the system), then stores the resulting water for later drinking or irrigation.
I have Vista Enterprise in a dual-boot laptop with TPM and grub as the primary boot loader, and SP1 installed without any problems at all, and never altered the boot loader. It's 64-bit Vista, which is typically even more stringent with the code checks than 32-bit.
Were Microsoft not attaching it to a KB article, I'd have called it FUD, but I will say that I have not experienced it at all.
The nearest Walmart is about five miles from where I shop, where the Crystal Light mixes are a little under $4 per can. Since it's more fuel to get to Walmart, I'll stick with the Crystal Light.:)
I'll add my experience into this. I'm currently getting caught up on 24. I missed a few episodes way back in Season 1, and so I stopped watching it. I use it to get roughly the same amount of time in on the treadmill each session (42:30, give or take a minute or so), and since I've just reached 4pm in Season 1, I still have a long way to go, even daily, to finish it out.
Pick a series that you've missed, one that you can get a little lost in. Press play on the DVD remote and press the start button on the treadmill at the same time. Anything that goes for a total of 30 minutes or more (any hour-timeslot TV show from The Sopranos to The Wire to West Wing works perfectly) will keep you diverted from the effort itself enough that you'll be able to pass the time without much notice.
I've only been doing this for a couple of months (started 24 a little into it), and I've managed to have to stay off of it due to foot injuries for a week at a time twice (get good new running shoes from a sporting good store!), but I'm averaging about 450 calories burned according to the built-in meter without too much stress, and I've dropped 14 pounds from my peak. I have a goal of dropping another eight pounds by October, which should be easily done well before, and may push on for another five after that, but that puts me at 140, and my family complains when I'm that low.
If you're a complete geek, graph everything available. I track time, distance, average speed, calories burned, and fat calories burned, as well as pounds burned (based on 3600 calories per pound), average per session, number of sessions, weight each day, and the approximate target date the goal will be reached. All of these are graphed, so I can see my weight dropping and my efforts returning improved numbers.
Another key point is to watch your calorie intake. I've tried doing the diet tracking and getting proper nutrition or leaving out fats or whatever, and I find that I stop this after a couple of weeks. It's much easier to track calories instead, and you don't stress over what you eat for dinner. I've read that it the average metabolism burn about 12 calories per pound per day, so if you weigh 160 pounds and can keep your intake below 1920 calories per day, you're going to do well. It's not at all difficult to maintain 1600 calories per day without much discipline, and it doesn't send your body into a crash that causes it to horde fat. It also gives you room for the occasional pizza day.
One of the things that I do to help stave off the occasional hunger is to drink more fluids. I've found that the low-calorie Crystal Light mixes give me a good variety with little hassle and little cost. If it works for you, try Diet Coke Plus. It's not everyone's favorite flavor, but it's different from regular Diet Coke, and I use it to douse my occasional soda cravings.
The ability to sign away rights is not absolute. State and federal laws address some of these things. For example, in California, you can sign an agreement that you will not work for a competing company for a period of time, but that agreement (or at least the non-compete section) is not valid. I would not be at all surprised to find that HIPAA regulations rather explicitly block this information from being released in a case like this.
Money in the US is printed (for bills) by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, or minted (for coins) by the US Mint, and both are divisions of the Department of the Treasury. The Federal Reserve itself is not a private company; it is a quasi-public entity with a few private aspects but with its roots firmly as a government entity, subject to congressional oversight and with all directors appointed by the president.
That's not what this is about. Comcast was found by the FCC to be interfering in the traffic of specific application types, violating principles established by the FCC to allow customers open access to the Internet. The customers were not charged for the bits that were blocked, so it had nothing to do with bandwidth caps.
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For many women, it helps regulate what can be a very erratic menstrual cycle. Some women also experience a lightening of the cycle because the pill evens out their hormones. At the time, it was also by far the most effective method of birth control, as the proper use of the pill is much more common than proper use of condoms and even when it's not quite properly used, it's still much more effective than no condom at all.
I'm curious how they were removed. I have an issue with floaters in my left eye; while they're not always consciously visible, in bright light such as daylight, they can become a distracting nuisance. I was under the impression that there's no way at all to ever deal with them. Even if I have to wait for eye disease (which runs in the family) to set in, I may at least have some bright spot to look forward to (so to speak).
The Constitution disagrees with you. From Article VI, Clause 2:
The Bill of Rights are a part of the Constitution, and hence they are law. They are neither statutory nor regulatory law, and hence do not spell out all the details of what is and is not allowed, but they were never intended to perform that function. Their purpose is to provide a framework within which statutory and regulatory law may be constructed.
That makes more sense, as the leaves will (I imagine) char and leave a protective carbon layer around the chicken.
Unless it was solidified lava, that seems unlikely. From some quick searches, it seems that the lower range of temperatures for molten lava is ~700 C, while aluminum melts at ~660 C.
Capping their per diem might hurt them more than removing their salaries. They get both. As of 2007, most legislators receive ~$113,000 per year, and then $162 per diem for each day they're in session (one or both may have gone up this year). Taking away their perks seems to get them moving faster than taking away their salary.
The major fault of the California system is that there is no real changeover. The system is so rigged that it's virtually impossible for any state legislative or House seat to change parties. The state Assembly and Senate are locked in to provide exactly (2/3 - 1) vote for the Democrats, leaving the rest to Republicans. This prevents the Democrats from having complete power (which would result in the populace demanding a new redistricting), but means they only need to get one or two Republicans to cave in to get what they want. This has allowed California to build up a 40% increase in revenues in five years, while at the same time the population increased by 4%, the Consumer Price Index increased by about 19%, and spending increased by 44%. Had the state been capped by the growth in population and CPI (or some other inflation rate), it would be spending only 24% more than it had when Schwarzeneggar was elected, and would have had plenty of money in a rainy-day fund to cover the more than 10% shortfall that it now has.
On top of this, the term limits that were voted into place (including by me) have turned out to be a colossal mistake. The legislature was once a fairly cordial place where most people settled into their seat, keeping constituents happy for a couple of decades, a few finding some ambition and targeting statewide or national office; It's now become a staring contest of ideologues, where no one budges on anything because it affects their chances to rotate into the other house or on to a more competitive office. It used to be that legislators had to learn to compromise because their opponent wouldn't just be there next year or next term -- they'd be there 10 or perhaps even 20 years later, and political memories can go back a very long time.
The current system has survived court challenges, but it's expected that without a new process brought in early, the 2011 redistricting is going to get contentious and end up in court for a drawn-out battle before the court imposes its own solution.
You're almost right. It's not that there's less money to be made, but more money to be lost. Many people will install the early version of the patches, but compatibility problems may not have been found by Microsoft's labs, and they'll be faced with increased calls and further bad press about how a "bad" patch was released, when in fact it was still a QA-level patch and not really ready for release.
Oh, this guy doesn't have a leg to stand on. I was merely pointing out that there are places where employers can't make claims on private work done by employees.
No one has said that Iran (or Libya before them) were prohibited from developing civilian nuclear energy. There's lots of help for that, as demonstrated by the recently-concluded talks with India to help develop the civilian nuclear program there.
However, signatories to the NNPT are required to be completely open about their civilian reactors and facilities. They are also, with the exception of the admitted nuclear-armed states, prohibited from undertaking anything that would lead to a nuclear weapons program. Failure to follow the requirements to the letter tends to raise suspicion.
And just to be pedantic, the US has about 3700 strategic nuclear warheads in active service.
Even for civilians, the ownership of works created off-site still varies by state. In California, it's explicitly stated that, with the exception of a few well-delineated items, if you don't create it on employer time, premises, and/or equipment, and especially if it's not something that the employer already does, then you own it. I've had to bring this up to a couple of employers in the past, and had letters added to my file regarding it to ensure that they know that I know it.
Doesn't ex post facto apply in most European countries? And since it was done by the government, there may also be questions about sovereign immunity.
The Ares V is planned to have nearly five times the lift capacity to LEO than the Falcon 9, with a planned 130 metric ton capacity compared to the latter's 27 metric tons. The Falcon 9 will be a direct replacement in terms of payload mass for the shuttle (itself a heavy lift launch system at a little over 24 metric tons), but does not really compare to the Ares V.
I take my data from the financials that they file every quarter and available through, for example, Google Finance. I have little else to go on.
But to your other point about grocery store profit margins, where is a profit margin acceptable? Do you object to the profit margins that I mentioned for the listed software companies?
You may be a troll, but you're an honorable troll. I think we can safely call you unique in the realm of Slashdot. :)
It's also important to note that vacation for them is not what we usually think of as vacation. Most of them spend at least some time in their local offices while they're gone. Yes, they do wander off with their families (or mistresses) to faraway places some of the time, but other times are spent on meeting with voters (and lobbyists) locally. It's at least a semblance of an effort to keep in touch with their electors.
What do you feel is a fair profit? The average net profit made by the major oil companies is about 9%. The following companies make profit levels that exceed that (based on most recent ratio of net income over total revenue):
At what point do you call for a windfall tax on these companies?
Cycle the water through so that you're returning water that has a higher salt concentration, but hasn't yet reached the point of brine. If you can put this in a place with relatively fast currents, the return water may dissipate fast enough that there is essentially no overall effect.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm imagining a partially-self-powering desalination setup that cycles through seawater (filtered for particulates), extracts the hydrogen and oxygen, combines it in a fuel cell (which power is then cycled back into the system), then stores the resulting water for later drinking or irrigation.
I was unaware of this program. Thank you for referencing it. I'll look into it, and may well buy the book.
I have Vista Enterprise in a dual-boot laptop with TPM and grub as the primary boot loader, and SP1 installed without any problems at all, and never altered the boot loader. It's 64-bit Vista, which is typically even more stringent with the code checks than 32-bit.
Were Microsoft not attaching it to a KB article, I'd have called it FUD, but I will say that I have not experienced it at all.
The nearest Walmart is about five miles from where I shop, where the Crystal Light mixes are a little under $4 per can. Since it's more fuel to get to Walmart, I'll stick with the Crystal Light. :)
I'll add my experience into this. I'm currently getting caught up on 24. I missed a few episodes way back in Season 1, and so I stopped watching it. I use it to get roughly the same amount of time in on the treadmill each session (42:30, give or take a minute or so), and since I've just reached 4pm in Season 1, I still have a long way to go, even daily, to finish it out.
Pick a series that you've missed, one that you can get a little lost in. Press play on the DVD remote and press the start button on the treadmill at the same time. Anything that goes for a total of 30 minutes or more (any hour-timeslot TV show from The Sopranos to The Wire to West Wing works perfectly) will keep you diverted from the effort itself enough that you'll be able to pass the time without much notice.
I've only been doing this for a couple of months (started 24 a little into it), and I've managed to have to stay off of it due to foot injuries for a week at a time twice (get good new running shoes from a sporting good store!), but I'm averaging about 450 calories burned according to the built-in meter without too much stress, and I've dropped 14 pounds from my peak. I have a goal of dropping another eight pounds by October, which should be easily done well before, and may push on for another five after that, but that puts me at 140, and my family complains when I'm that low.
If you're a complete geek, graph everything available. I track time, distance, average speed, calories burned, and fat calories burned, as well as pounds burned (based on 3600 calories per pound), average per session, number of sessions, weight each day, and the approximate target date the goal will be reached. All of these are graphed, so I can see my weight dropping and my efforts returning improved numbers.
Another key point is to watch your calorie intake. I've tried doing the diet tracking and getting proper nutrition or leaving out fats or whatever, and I find that I stop this after a couple of weeks. It's much easier to track calories instead, and you don't stress over what you eat for dinner. I've read that it the average metabolism burn about 12 calories per pound per day, so if you weigh 160 pounds and can keep your intake below 1920 calories per day, you're going to do well. It's not at all difficult to maintain 1600 calories per day without much discipline, and it doesn't send your body into a crash that causes it to horde fat. It also gives you room for the occasional pizza day.
One of the things that I do to help stave off the occasional hunger is to drink more fluids. I've found that the low-calorie Crystal Light mixes give me a good variety with little hassle and little cost. If it works for you, try Diet Coke Plus. It's not everyone's favorite flavor, but it's different from regular Diet Coke, and I use it to douse my occasional soda cravings.
The ability to sign away rights is not absolute. State and federal laws address some of these things. For example, in California, you can sign an agreement that you will not work for a competing company for a period of time, but that agreement (or at least the non-compete section) is not valid. I would not be at all surprised to find that HIPAA regulations rather explicitly block this information from being released in a case like this.
Money in the US is printed (for bills) by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, or minted (for coins) by the US Mint, and both are divisions of the Department of the Treasury. The Federal Reserve itself is not a private company; it is a quasi-public entity with a few private aspects but with its roots firmly as a government entity, subject to congressional oversight and with all directors appointed by the president.
That's not what this is about. Comcast was found by the FCC to be interfering in the traffic of specific application types, violating principles established by the FCC to allow customers open access to the Internet. The customers were not charged for the bits that were blocked, so it had nothing to do with bandwidth caps.