A lot of folks tend to overspend on thier cars and go way into debt. I know folks who did not plan and purchased expensive, big cars\SUVs (40K+), financing nearly all of the purchase price + tax (0% interest is a great deal, right...) or getting into lease. These people now have cars they cannot sell (in today's market, used SUVs are very cheap) because the loan balance, or lease buyout, is far above the market value but cannot drive much, because they can't afford the fuel costs. When people are faced with a $600 car payment and a $600 fuel bill, insurance fraud becomes an option, a way out.
You sound like somebody who has his head screwed on right and wouldn't make the aformentioned mistakes, but you're in the minority when it comes to the American car-buying population. I understand if somebody needs a big car for thier lifestyle or just wants one, but I can't understand going into the level of debt some people have for transportation.
Our family drives small cars (even with three kids, you don't need a minivan/SUV!) and fuel costs are starting to become annoying: I fill our my corolla and it costs $35; I can't imagine the costs for a huge SUV.
>> Not to even mention al the medical technical innovations
Pharmaceuticals, lithotripsy, CAT scans, MRI, plastic IV lines, angioplasty
These are nothing short of magic. The technological advancements in medical care have far outpaced other areas. You can have major work done with only a few stiches. Removing kidney stones would typically require a cut 1/4 the way around your torso, today you can get some stents placed in your body (no cuts) and get the stones blasted out as you sit in a tub of water. Sure you pee purple for a few days, but that's it.
Drugs are another bit of incredible technology. Death from infections rarely happen. Drugs for people with serious mental illness, heart problems, arthritis, are effective & cheap. No mumps, measles, whooping cough or any other childhood illness that usually took one or two kids in a family. A woman dying in child birth (or afterward from infection or botched delivery) wasn't uncommon in the 1920's and now rarely happens thanks to medical advancement.
Worker productivity is also boosted by the huge capital stock (not the paper kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_stock) that backs-up each U.S. worker. Roads, cars, computers, machinery, buildings, tools, desks, trucks. It's amazing compared to other places and that makes a big difference in per capita productivity.
I don't think the hardware timers on those cheap-o devices aren't good enough to drive RT software anyway. You can't be RT if the underlying hardware can't generate dependable clock ticks.
>> * An RPG or Bazooka could eliminate a castle's defenses by simply blowing a hole through the side.
Not so sure about the castle wall. When constructed from stone, they were actually two walls, with stone\sand\concrete filling. Wall depth could be 10+ feet think in some spots. That sort of construction can absorb a lot of force. However, the wooden door wouldn't stand a chance against something like an RPG or large round.
Plus, the moat around the castle is there to make sure the attackers couldn't get too close. So, even if you breached the wall, you would still need to wade across the water and in doing so would be a good target for the archers defending the castle.
Never split, 88K per share. Stop by the home page http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ and read the Owner's Manual for some great investing advice, not just for Berkshire shares.
Same with Latin. Word order does not matter, but the verb is usually at the end of a sentence\phrase. How the verb is declenated tells you how it is used. However, like Russian, you can move order around to place emphasis or to alert the reader.
"I love you" in Latin would be Tu amo (sloppy translation: You I love), but would probably be written\spoken Amo tu. Things can get tricky when trying to figure out what adjectives in a sentence modify if the word ordering is non-standard.
Greenspan's been in for ~20 years, so dollar deflation at ~2.5% a year isn't that bad. Wages have been rising at close to the same rate, so the real difference isn't that great. However, deflation has been much greater in some sectors (a dollar claims much less real estate than before) than others.
>> I'm not sure I want my credit card number floating around in the clear
Hand it to the waiter, and you have your card with all of the security numbers printed thereon in the clear. I'm not defending Apple's system, just pointing out that parties interested in getting your credit card information can do so with better fidelity and ease than attempting to break into a POS (point of sale) system.
The question isn't about them sitting there. The fact they exist at all shows the intent of the person who created them. This weapon has one and only one purpose, and that is to kill and wage destruction over a large area. If you never wanted to do such a thing, you wouldn't create a way to do it in the first place.
However, willingness and ability to easily destroy and kill in vast numbers from a distance with zero cost in terms of life for your country is a great way to keep the peace. Like it or not, violence works.
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>> I really do hate the virtual machine implementation.
Give GCJ a look. It's a front-end to GCC that produces machine code from java source. It may not produce code that runs as fast as a hotspot VM, but it does a reasonable job and you don't have the start-up cost of a VM. GCJ can be built so that it cross-compiles too.
If you're interested in ditching SWING, consider SWT the presentation underpinnings of the Eclipse ide.
India comes in at #154 (out of 232) with per captia gdp of $3,100. The entries at the top of the list are generally involved in banking\trading, that seems to make sense given the nature of that business.
There's a large positive relationship between the capital stock of a country and the per capita GDP. That's what drives the high incomes in countries in the the US/UK/EU/Asia regions. In general, the higher the per capita capital stock, the higher marginal return on capital. I couldn't find any good comparative data to cite, most of the World Bank info was from the last 1980's.
Let me guess: Catholic grade school? Happened to me too.
>> The way religion is set up, you can never prove or disprove its basis.
You'll never find 100% proof of anything, save for the most trivial things in life. The message of Christ: being respectful, faithful, honorable, truthful, modest and humble make living a lot easier, even if you don't belive in the Messanger.
Most institutional investors (Fidelity, TIAA-CREF and ilk) can't hold your shares when you're de-listed. SGI is 40% owned by institutions, which is within normal limits. I'm guessing this has already been priced into SGI.
Looking at the stats behind the share, SGI isn't in bad shape, but isn't the picture of health, either. They're bringing in decent money, but it looks like they need to reduce debt and trim expenses. I'm not sure what composes the sales (they could be selling assets) if they have product\consulting sales, better management combined with going into receivership may not be a bad idea.
Start-up time is a few seconds with out Java. Tools | Options, select OpenOffice.org | Java on the left, uncheck the "Use a Java run time environment".
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Emacs compiled for windows (20.7.1 i386-*-nt5.0.2195) uses 5,420K (says the control panel)
Not much bigger once it loads a trival C++ file and therefore loads cc-mode.
Most farmers that I know in the dairy biz (western Pennsylvania) buy cows or spingers (cows ready to give birth). Some rent a bull for a season. I haven't heard of insemination via artificial means, but that may be because I only know small-time farmers.
A cow can get a little rowdy if not fed/milked on schedule, but a bull can be unpredictable and downright dangerous, they don't make a nice addition to your meadow. Plus, if you're doing dairy, there's no desire to feed an animal that's not making milk.
My wife works in a pharmacy and has aways complained about the old women shoplifting like bandits. Cosmetics, candy, electronics. I could understand (but not agree) with swiping medicine if you needed it, but Oil of Olay? Even after the store installed the alarms at the door, the same women could come in, week after week, and bolt out of the store after setting off the alarm with a purse full of stolen goods.
This is a troll, I hope. I don't think you have a wife or kids. If you do, and this is the relationship you have with them, I pity you, and them as well.
Yes, you need money for housing, clothing, food, medical care. Yes, once the essentials are paid for, the stress in your life is a whole lot less. The most miserable kids/spouses I've seen are those who parents/spouses who substitute material things for genuine love, attention and affection.
The formula does not factor in depreciation and taxes (unless that's incorporated into the manufacturing costs). To be explicit:
Profit = Revenue - Cost - M&A - R&D - Cost of Capital - Depr - Taxes.
While depreciation is not a cash item (the effect on cash occurred when the item was purchased, the consumption of the item occurs as entity conducts business), one needs to figure it in to understand the true cost of running the business.
The notion of profit here is from an accounting standpoint. From an economist's standpoint, profit arises when the return is greater than the expected market return. So, if the final profit if the company is 10% and that's what other companies in the industry make, the economic profit is 0.
Consider makiing one of those outlets a ground-fault circuit interrupter. If the outlets are wired in a series, you only need one for the entire group. Unless you're close to the panel, I would recommend getting the GFCI outlets and not the breakers.
This will protect you from defective equipment from the customer and the occasional coffee spill.
That's where the full tank of gas and battery-operated radio came into play. We listened to the weather reports and were ready to leave if told to do so.
>> I'm also guessing you weren't on food stamps
What we did didn't require spending much money, batteries (sometimes), pack of ice. That's like 5 bucks. Topping off the car, maybe $20, but if you're short on money, that could be skipped. Candles/matches keep for years. Extra food consisted of peanut butter, bread, tuna fish, powdered milk (shelf life: forever) crackers, spam and canned veggies: stuff that could be bought with food stamps, I'm guessing.
Self-reliance is a way of life (not a luxury) that you don't start 2 days before a storm makes land or other troubles peek over the horizon.
I grew-up in Maryland. Not exactly hurricane alley, but we got our share. Hurricane's don't sneak-up and surprise you; even 20 years ago, we had a few days of warning. Prepping for a hurricane involved:
1- Anything outside that couldn't be tied down was brought inside 2- We were far enough away from the coast that we just needed to secure the windows (if not tight, the wind would drive water under the sills), not cover them in wood 3- Make sure we had a several gallons of drinking water 4- Check supply of candles, matches, batteries, make sure the radio worked 5- Double check we had enough canned food/dry milk for a few days (also, locate manual can opener) 7- Fill-up the station wagon, have clothes handy if we needed to leave quickly 8- Get board games out of the closet 9- Buy ice for the freezer
Power outages typically lasted a few days. Several times, we were under a boil water order, so the drinking water came in handy. We never had to leave our home.
Notice that none of the above involved stitting around for the government to do anything.
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A lot of folks tend to overspend on thier cars and go way into debt. I know folks who did not plan and purchased expensive, big cars\SUVs (40K+), financing nearly all of the purchase price + tax (0% interest is a great deal, right...) or getting into lease. These people now have cars they cannot sell (in today's market, used SUVs are very cheap) because the loan balance, or lease buyout, is far above the market value but cannot drive much, because they can't afford the fuel costs. When people are faced with a $600 car payment and a $600 fuel bill, insurance fraud becomes an option, a way out.
You sound like somebody who has his head screwed on right and wouldn't make the aformentioned mistakes, but you're in the minority when it comes to the American car-buying population. I understand if somebody needs a big car for thier lifestyle or just wants one, but I can't understand going into the level of debt some people have for transportation.
Our family drives small cars (even with three kids, you don't need a minivan/SUV!) and fuel costs are starting to become annoying: I fill our my corolla and it costs $35; I can't imagine the costs for a huge SUV.
>> Not to even mention al the medical technical innovations
Pharmaceuticals, lithotripsy, CAT scans, MRI, plastic IV lines, angioplasty
These are nothing short of magic. The technological advancements in medical care have far outpaced other areas. You can have major work done with only a few stiches. Removing kidney stones would typically require a cut 1/4 the way around your torso, today you can get some stents placed in your body (no cuts) and get the stones blasted out as you sit in a tub of water. Sure you pee purple for a few days, but that's it.
Drugs are another bit of incredible technology. Death from infections rarely happen. Drugs for people with serious mental illness, heart problems, arthritis, are effective & cheap. No mumps, measles, whooping cough or any other childhood illness that usually took one or two kids in a family. A woman dying in child birth (or afterward from infection or botched delivery) wasn't uncommon in the 1920's and now rarely happens thanks to medical advancement.
Worker productivity is also boosted by the huge capital stock (not the paper kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_stock) that backs-up each U.S. worker. Roads, cars, computers, machinery, buildings, tools, desks, trucks. It's amazing compared to other places and that makes a big difference in per capita productivity.
I don't think the hardware timers on those cheap-o devices aren't good enough to drive RT software anyway. You can't be RT if the underlying hardware can't generate dependable clock ticks.
>> * An RPG or Bazooka could eliminate a castle's defenses by simply blowing a hole through the side.
Not so sure about the castle wall. When constructed from stone, they were actually two walls, with stone\sand\concrete filling. Wall depth could be 10+ feet think in some spots. That sort of construction can absorb a lot of force. However, the wooden door wouldn't stand a chance against something like an RPG or large round.
Plus, the moat around the castle is there to make sure the attackers couldn't get too close. So, even if you breached the wall, you would still need to wade across the water and in doing so would be a good target for the archers defending the castle.
>> Most companies "manipulate" their stock price
So true.
And there's always Berkshire Hathaway http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BRK-A
Never split, 88K per share. Stop by the home page http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ and read the Owner's Manual for some great investing advice, not just for Berkshire shares.
Same with Latin. Word order does not matter, but the verb is usually at the end of a sentence\phrase. How the verb is declenated tells you how it is used. However, like Russian, you can move order around to place emphasis or to alert the reader.
"I love you" in Latin would be Tu amo (sloppy translation: You I love), but would probably be written\spoken Amo tu. Things can get tricky when trying to figure out what adjectives in a sentence modify if the word ordering is non-standard.
Greenspan's been in for ~20 years, so dollar deflation at ~2.5% a year isn't that bad. Wages have been rising at close to the same rate, so the real difference isn't that great. However, deflation has been much greater in some sectors (a dollar claims much less real estate than before) than others.
>> I'm not sure I want my credit card number floating around in the clear
Hand it to the waiter, and you have your card with all of the security numbers printed thereon in the clear. I'm not defending Apple's system, just pointing out that parties interested in getting your credit card information can do so with better fidelity and ease than attempting to break into a POS (point of sale) system.
>> Nuclear bombs aren't inherently evil or good
The question isn't about them sitting there. The fact they exist at all shows the intent of the person who created them. This weapon has one and only one purpose, and that is to kill and wage destruction over a large area. If you never wanted to do such a thing, you wouldn't create a way to do it in the first place.
However, willingness and ability to easily destroy and kill in vast numbers from a distance with zero cost in terms of life for your country is a great way to keep the peace. Like it or not, violence works.
>> I really do hate the virtual machine implementation.
Give GCJ a look. It's a front-end to GCC that produces machine code from java source. It may not produce code that runs as fast as a hotspot VM, but it does a reasonable job and you don't have the start-up cost of a VM. GCJ can be built so that it cross-compiles too.
If you're interested in ditching SWING, consider SWT the presentation underpinnings of the Eclipse ide.
It's the per-head numbers that matter, absolute GDP doesn't really tell you that much.
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rank
India comes in at #154 (out of 232) with per captia gdp of $3,100. The entries at the top of the list are generally involved in banking\trading, that seems to make sense given the nature of that business.
There's a large positive relationship between the capital stock of a country and the per capita GDP. That's what drives the high incomes in countries in the the US/UK/EU/Asia regions. In general, the higher the per capita capital stock, the higher marginal return on capital. I couldn't find any good comparative data to cite, most of the World Bank info was from the last 1980's.
Let me guess: Catholic grade school? Happened to me too.
>> The way religion is set up, you can never prove or disprove its basis.
You'll never find 100% proof of anything, save for the most trivial things in life. The message of Christ: being respectful, faithful, honorable, truthful, modest and humble make living a lot easier, even if you don't belive in the Messanger.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=SGI
Most institutional investors (Fidelity, TIAA-CREF and ilk) can't hold your shares when you're de-listed. SGI is 40% owned by institutions, which is within normal limits. I'm guessing this has already been priced into SGI.
Looking at the stats behind the share, SGI isn't in bad shape, but isn't the picture of health, either. They're bringing in decent money, but it looks like they need to reduce debt and trim expenses. I'm not sure what composes the sales (they could be selling assets) if they have product\consulting sales, better management combined with going into receivership may not be a bad idea.
Turn off java support.
Start-up time is a few seconds with out Java. Tools | Options, select OpenOffice.org | Java on the left, uncheck the "Use a Java run time environment".
Emacs compiled for windows (20.7.1 i386-*-nt5.0.2195) uses 5,420K (says the control panel)
Not much bigger once it loads a trival C++ file and therefore loads cc-mode.
Most farmers that I know in the dairy biz (western Pennsylvania) buy cows or spingers (cows ready to give birth). Some rent a bull for a season. I haven't heard of insemination via artificial means, but that may be because I only know small-time farmers.
A cow can get a little rowdy if not fed/milked on schedule, but a bull can be unpredictable and downright dangerous, they don't make a nice addition to your meadow. Plus, if you're doing dairy, there's no desire to feed an animal that's not making milk.
>> elderly women
My wife works in a pharmacy and has aways complained about the old women shoplifting like bandits. Cosmetics, candy, electronics. I could understand (but not agree) with swiping medicine if you needed it, but Oil of Olay? Even after the store installed the alarms at the door, the same women could come in, week after week, and bolt out of the store after setting off the alarm with a purse full of stolen goods.
Don't forget the DEET. Lots of DEET.
This is a troll, I hope. I don't think you have a wife or kids. If you do, and this is the relationship you have with them, I pity you, and them as well.
Yes, you need money for housing, clothing, food, medical care. Yes, once the essentials are paid for, the stress in your life is a whole lot less. The most miserable kids/spouses I've seen are those who parents/spouses who substitute material things for genuine love, attention and affection.
The formula does not factor in depreciation and taxes (unless that's incorporated into the manufacturing costs). To be explicit:
Profit = Revenue - Cost - M&A - R&D - Cost of Capital - Depr - Taxes.
While depreciation is not a cash item (the effect on cash occurred when the item was purchased, the consumption of the item occurs as entity conducts business), one needs to figure it in to understand the true cost of running the business.
The notion of profit here is from an accounting standpoint. From an economist's standpoint, profit arises when the return is greater than the expected market return. So, if the final profit if the company is 10% and that's what other companies in the industry make, the economic profit is 0.
>> Carcasses of dead dinosaurs
Sinclair oil has already participated in the exploitation of the dinosaurs for thier marketing purposes.
>> 2. Lots of 3 prong outlets.
Consider makiing one of those outlets a ground-fault circuit interrupter. If the outlets are wired in a series, you only need one for the entire group. Unless you're close to the panel, I would recommend getting the GFCI outlets and not the breakers.
This will protect you from defective equipment from the customer and the occasional coffee spill.
That's where the full tank of gas and battery-operated radio came into play. We listened to the weather reports and were ready to leave if told to do so.
>> I'm also guessing you weren't on food stamps
What we did didn't require spending much money, batteries (sometimes), pack of ice. That's like 5 bucks. Topping off the car, maybe $20, but if you're short on money, that could be skipped. Candles/matches keep for years. Extra food consisted of peanut butter, bread, tuna fish, powdered milk (shelf life: forever) crackers, spam and canned veggies: stuff that could be bought with food stamps, I'm guessing.
Self-reliance is a way of life (not a luxury) that you don't start 2 days before a storm makes land or other troubles peek over the horizon.
I grew-up in Maryland. Not exactly hurricane alley, but we got our share. Hurricane's don't sneak-up and surprise you; even 20 years ago, we had a few days of warning. Prepping for a hurricane involved:
1- Anything outside that couldn't be tied down was brought inside
2- We were far enough away from the coast that we just needed to secure the windows (if not tight, the wind would drive water under the sills), not cover them in wood
3- Make sure we had a several gallons of drinking water
4- Check supply of candles, matches, batteries, make sure the radio worked
5- Double check we had enough canned food/dry milk for a few days (also, locate manual can opener)
7- Fill-up the station wagon, have clothes handy if we needed to leave quickly
8- Get board games out of the closet
9- Buy ice for the freezer
Power outages typically lasted a few days. Several times, we were under a boil water order, so the drinking water came in handy. We never had to leave our home.
Notice that none of the above involved stitting around for the government to do anything.