If you put your $1 a month into a savings account (I assumed 2.6% interest as that's what I'm getting now) after 7 years you'd have $100. You could then go to a financial planner and try to work out how you could save more than $1 a month.
Throwing money away is rarely the answer. (Also why I'm going to give away any of my pennies.)
The error that you're making is basically saying that 50c has a zero value to you. It doesn't, it has a value of 50c to you.
I didn't fully realise this until a few months ago, when I maxxed out my credit card. I thought to myself "I haven't bought anything expensive, where did all my money go?" It had gone to several pages of transactions, most of which were under $10. At the time I thought that $8 wasn't a lot of money so I didn't think about it, but for $8 I got something that wasn't really worth anything to me.
So now I've got no money, and a big pile of dollar store crap, because I pissed all my money away.
What I'm trying to say, is that the mentality you described will still leave you in a worse position than if you looked at these things with a mathematical basis.
Now has anyone sat down and actually figured out what kind of pollution trade off we are talking about, from the creation of the machine to its recycling or destruction, along with power required and pollution created by its generation, for even changing out a city the size of Chicago with electrics/hybrids?
Yes.
One of the problems with current cars are that Internal Combustion Engines are seriously inefficient. There's a theoretical maximum of something like 40% efficiency.
Even from the worst coal plant you could find, and even adding in all the losses from transmission, transformers and anything else you can find that would hurt the efficiency, you're still looking at around 60% efficiency.
I think he's not so much talking about people leaving FaceBook.
FaceBook are currently allowing third parties to put games on their network. They probably won't change that, but they could decide to try and make their own games and block every one else. Having your companies entire livelihood depend on someone else (who has proven themselves to be fickle in the past) is not a good long-term strategy.
I was under the impression that it was a metaphor. For the camel to get through the eye of the needle it has to be completely unloaded, and then crawl through the eye on it's knees.
Similarly, for a rich man to enter heaven, he has to let go of all his possessions, and kneel down before God.
Who said anything about jerks not deserving fun? I don't have fun doing the things that they do have fun doing. I leave them to have fun in multi-player and go find something that I will have fun doing.
I don't make my own games because it's hard, and I expect the people who are getting paid to make games would be better at it than I am.
For the most part, recycling uses pretty much the same methods as the original refining process used. You just start with a feed that comes from a different place, which is probably cheaper, as you can skip the first few steps. (E.g. with metals you can skip the mining and separating ore from rock steps and just skip straight to smelting.)
Maybe with complex stuff like computers which are harder to separate into the various materials you could make that kind of argument, but I think that the potentially toxic materials that could leach out would be a big factor against you...
According to TFA he's not even drinking coffee. He says that he's not having any problems staying awake, just that actually doing stuff is so much harder for him.
I have a vague recollection of a DJ that stayed on the air for 40 days continuously. Clearly there is a special class of people out there who have no problems whatsoever staying up heroic lengths of time.
Never expect people to act out against their own interests, and in favour of yours. It happens every now and then, but for the most part, the best you can do is come along for the ride of someone doing something for them self.
Of course, it won't even be travelling at 88 miles per hour relative to the Earth, as we're constantly accelerating toward the Sun. Then of course, you'd be subject to some gravitation, so you wouldn't stay at 88 mph even relative to the arbitrary point you started at!
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If you put your $1 a month into a savings account (I assumed 2.6% interest as that's what I'm getting now) after 7 years you'd have $100. You could then go to a financial planner and try to work out how you could save more than $1 a month.
Throwing money away is rarely the answer. (Also why I'm going to give away any of my pennies.)
The error that you're making is basically saying that 50c has a zero value to you. It doesn't, it has a value of 50c to you.
I didn't fully realise this until a few months ago, when I maxxed out my credit card. I thought to myself "I haven't bought anything expensive, where did all my money go?" It had gone to several pages of transactions, most of which were under $10. At the time I thought that $8 wasn't a lot of money so I didn't think about it, but for $8 I got something that wasn't really worth anything to me.
So now I've got no money, and a big pile of dollar store crap, because I pissed all my money away.
What I'm trying to say, is that the mentality you described will still leave you in a worse position than if you looked at these things with a mathematical basis.
those are the only 2 musicians I could think of that have lived a lifetime of drug abuse.
Musicians that abuse drugs aren't exactly rare.
Jokes are pretty hard too...
Now has anyone sat down and actually figured out what kind of pollution trade off we are talking about, from the creation of the machine to its recycling or destruction, along with power required and pollution created by its generation, for even changing out a city the size of Chicago with electrics/hybrids?
Yes.
One of the problems with current cars are that Internal Combustion Engines are seriously inefficient. There's a theoretical maximum of something like 40% efficiency.
Even from the worst coal plant you could find, and even adding in all the losses from transmission, transformers and anything else you can find that would hurt the efficiency, you're still looking at around 60% efficiency.
Those are all good questions. Questions that could make or break Zynga.
So our nukes worked, but theirs didn't!
Go USA!
I think he's not so much talking about people leaving FaceBook.
FaceBook are currently allowing third parties to put games on their network. They probably won't change that, but they could decide to try and make their own games and block every one else. Having your companies entire livelihood depend on someone else (who has proven themselves to be fickle in the past) is not a good long-term strategy.
I was under the impression that it was a metaphor. For the camel to get through the eye of the needle it has to be completely unloaded, and then crawl through the eye on it's knees.
Similarly, for a rich man to enter heaven, he has to let go of all his possessions, and kneel down before God.
stay sleazy, moron.
Until the day I die. ;)
Only if they received a liberal education.
A proper education would inform them that he's actually a communist muslim who was born in Nigeria, and wants to take over the world.
So... the guy who doesn't spend 16 hours a day playing a video game is the pathetic one?
Sounds like you might have a few inadequacies for which you need to take responsibility.
Who said anything about jerks not deserving fun? I don't have fun doing the things that they do have fun doing. I leave them to have fun in multi-player and go find something that I will have fun doing.
I don't make my own games because it's hard, and I expect the people who are getting paid to make games would be better at it than I am.
Someone needs to post that checklist of why that won't work.
For the most part, recycling uses pretty much the same methods as the original refining process used. You just start with a feed that comes from a different place, which is probably cheaper, as you can skip the first few steps. (E.g. with metals you can skip the mining and separating ore from rock steps and just skip straight to smelting.)
Maybe with complex stuff like computers which are harder to separate into the various materials you could make that kind of argument, but I think that the potentially toxic materials that could leach out would be a big factor against you...
(yes, I know, penguins are antarctic; but the arctic doesn't have any birds nearly as iconic)
Maybe they could burn baby seals for warmth...
I have trouble explaining that I want coffee flavoured coffee, not vanilla or pumpkin or whatever else they're trying to sell.
According to TFA he's not even drinking coffee. He says that he's not having any problems staying awake, just that actually doing stuff is so much harder for him.
I have a vague recollection of a DJ that stayed on the air for 40 days continuously. Clearly there is a special class of people out there who have no problems whatsoever staying up heroic lengths of time.
Never expect people to act out against their own interests, and in favour of yours. It happens every now and then, but for the most part, the best you can do is come along for the ride of someone doing something for them self.
What are you on?
Of course, it won't even be travelling at 88 miles per hour relative to the Earth, as we're constantly accelerating toward the Sun. Then of course, you'd be subject to some gravitation, so you wouldn't stay at 88 mph even relative to the arbitrary point you started at!
If you hate your job, you should probably try to find another one.
If you're just 'venting' you should know to only do it with your friends and not in front of the whole world.
It's still good to point out when people do good things, even if it ends up being to their advantage anyway.
They could have just as easily taken all those savings, and still gone after the guy for the damage he did do.
Oxidising isn't so much of an issue in space...