Yeah, which is why it's dishonest. I'm a non-profit and my brother over there (who collects payments for me) is a for-profit, but he gives me 100% of the money he collects! Of course, I slip him over a dollar for every $10 he gives me. What? Why are you looking at me like that? This is a perfectly honest scam!
If the government is going to give the money to Red Cross and the soldiers won't need to, that is an additional expense to the government, and one less expense for the soldiers. So why shouldn't it come out of their pay? Where else would it come from?
If it was a box marked "check this box to donate 1% of your salary to the Red Cross" and it gets deducted if they want it to, that'd be one thing, but the government deciding where part of their money goes with no input from the individual strikes me as wrong. Having the government decide where all of it goes is the absurd extreme of that thinking, of course, but I'd disagree with any step in that direction.
Yeah, instead of, you know, paying the soldiers. I mean, room, board, and donuts and coffee. And if anybody shoots at you, shoot back. What more could a soldier want?
Were the Earth a giant reactor, the heat from radioactive decay would be largely insignificant compared to that from induced fission.
Induced fission is radioactive decay, just like burning steel wool is oxidizing. You're arguing over a pointless distinction that amounts to what caused the radioactive decay, which really doesn't matter. "The earth is basically a giant fission reactor" is a perfectly valid statement.
Your original point seemed to be (sarcastically) "how dare anyone expect a charity to use part of the money they collect to cover their expenses?", to which I was responding that yes, of course everyone expects the charity to do that, they just also expect it to be operating as a non-profit, which mGive.com is not.
A non-profit does not profit. Its employees may, and it may cover its expenses, but the corporation itself is not supposed to profit.
On another note, you've stated that mGive is NOT a non-profit organization. So, is it fair for people to expect them to operate like they ARE one?
When they're operating a non-profit mGive Foundation, and claiming that 100% of the money they receive goes to the charities it's designated for, yes... it's reasonable to expect them to not be laundering their payments through a for-profit mGive.com corporation, which is skimming money off of every transaction.
No, you obviously don't. You don't seem to understand how to read, either.
mGive.com is a for-profit organization. They aren't just taking the funding necessary for them to operate. They aren't just paying their employees. The corporation itself is profiting.
Yes they are. Fission is usually used to describe when it's accelerated by bombarding it with the decay products of other fissioning nuclei, but it's nothing different happening really. Get enough fissile material in one lump and it'll go critical - its own radioactive decay will cause a chain reaction.
Radioactive decay is to fission as rusting is to iron being oxidized. They're exactly the same thing. It's just that the type of fission you're thinking of is like lighting a lump of steel wool... it's a self-sustaining reaction and it's much faster and hotter. But it's still the same thing.
Convection ovens can operate at lower temperatures because the airflow causes the food to heat and brown more evenly and quickly. Basically, you want to get it as hot as possible as quickly as possible. If it burns, it's only because you cooked it too long. (At least, with traditional thin-crust pizza. Deep-dish pizza wouldn't cook evenly, I imagine. You'd need slower heating to ensure that the temperature is even throughout.)
I'm pretty sure the "help" they were giving was more in the line of providing medical necessities. Selling coffee and donuts to the soldiers was probably considered fund-raising to help offset their real costs.
You don't seem to understand how non-profit organizations work.
A non-profit organization can still accept payment. It can still pay its employees. Its employees can even make a profit! The only thing that can't make a profit is the corporation itself. That means, if they're in the black at the end of the year, the money simply rolls into the next year. It isn't profit. It's just surplus. There are very tight restrictions on what they can do with the money. But paying their employees and buying equipment are certainly permitted uses of it, which is why it stinks of corruption when the people they're buying their technology from are simply themselves under the name of a different corporation, a for-profit corporation... mGive.com is a for-profit corp.
Not everything can be free and mgive needs money to continue operating.
Non-profits can take in money to continue operating. The difference is, if they have a surplus at the end of the year, they can't call it "profit" and award it as bonuses to their employees/shareholders.
According to the rules proposed by the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, the genuine Neapolitan pizza [...] must be baked for 60–90 seconds in a 485 C (905 F) stone oven with an oak-wood fire. When cooked, it should be crispy, tender and fragrant.
The Air Force is also using the Condor to process ground-based radar images of space objects, again with extraordinary clarity. Barnell shows images of a space shuttle orbiting Earth at 5 miles a second. Without Condor processing, the shuttle image is a blurry black triangle. With Condor processing, it is sharp and distinct. It’s clear that its payload doors are open.
It's power factor. Basically if your load is more inductive or more capacitive (the two balance each other out), you're wasting energy. A purely resistive load (neither inductive nor capacitive) is the most efficient.
Most loads are either inductive or resistive. Some places with very large inductive loads (e.g. large motors) have capacitor banks to help balance out their inductive loads, which improves their power factor.
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Yeah, which is why it's dishonest. I'm a non-profit and my brother over there (who collects payments for me) is a for-profit, but he gives me 100% of the money he collects! Of course, I slip him over a dollar for every $10 he gives me. What? Why are you looking at me like that? This is a perfectly honest scam!
Even if they do charge for the upcoming month they can't magically divine your donation to the Red Cross in that month.
If the government is going to give the money to Red Cross and the soldiers won't need to, that is an additional expense to the government, and one less expense for the soldiers. So why shouldn't it come out of their pay? Where else would it come from?
If it was a box marked "check this box to donate 1% of your salary to the Red Cross" and it gets deducted if they want it to, that'd be one thing, but the government deciding where part of their money goes with no input from the individual strikes me as wrong. Having the government decide where all of it goes is the absurd extreme of that thinking, of course, but I'd disagree with any step in that direction.
Yes, I figured that out, but it took me a few moments.
Yeah, instead of, you know, paying the soldiers. I mean, room, board, and donuts and coffee. And if anybody shoots at you, shoot back. What more could a soldier want?
Were the Earth a giant reactor, the heat from radioactive decay would be largely insignificant compared to that from induced fission.
Induced fission is radioactive decay, just like burning steel wool is oxidizing. You're arguing over a pointless distinction that amounts to what caused the radioactive decay, which really doesn't matter. "The earth is basically a giant fission reactor" is a perfectly valid statement.
Your original point seemed to be (sarcastically) "how dare anyone expect a charity to use part of the money they collect to cover their expenses?", to which I was responding that yes, of course everyone expects the charity to do that, they just also expect it to be operating as a non-profit, which mGive.com is not.
X has always meant 10th.
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These companies profit from situations like this.
A non-profit does not profit. Its employees may, and it may cover its expenses, but the corporation itself is not supposed to profit.
On another note, you've stated that mGive is NOT a non-profit organization. So, is it fair for people to expect them to operate like they ARE one?
When they're operating a non-profit mGive Foundation, and claiming that 100% of the money they receive goes to the charities it's designated for, yes... it's reasonable to expect them to not be laundering their payments through a for-profit mGive.com corporation, which is skimming money off of every transaction.
Spontaneous fission is a type of radioactive decay
You didn't say "spontaneous fission" before.
radioactive decay and a fission reactor are not the same thing
Nor did you say "a fission reactor".
You said fission.
People expect mGive to operate like any other non-profit corporation. That is the point that you don't seem to understand.
No, you obviously don't. You don't seem to understand how to read, either.
mGive.com is a for-profit organization. They aren't just taking the funding necessary for them to operate. They aren't just paying their employees. The corporation itself is profiting.
Did anybody else spend a while trying to figure out that headline? For a minute I was wondering if they changed the name.
Yes they are. Fission is usually used to describe when it's accelerated by bombarding it with the decay products of other fissioning nuclei, but it's nothing different happening really. Get enough fissile material in one lump and it'll go critical - its own radioactive decay will cause a chain reaction.
Radioactive decay is to fission as rusting is to iron being oxidized. They're exactly the same thing. It's just that the type of fission you're thinking of is like lighting a lump of steel wool... it's a self-sustaining reaction and it's much faster and hotter. But it's still the same thing.
Convection ovens can operate at lower temperatures because the airflow causes the food to heat and brown more evenly and quickly. Basically, you want to get it as hot as possible as quickly as possible. If it burns, it's only because you cooked it too long. (At least, with traditional thin-crust pizza. Deep-dish pizza wouldn't cook evenly, I imagine. You'd need slower heating to ensure that the temperature is even throughout.)
mGive Foundation is a non-profit organization.
mGive.com is a for-profit organization.
See how that works?
I'm pretty sure the "help" they were giving was more in the line of providing medical necessities. Selling coffee and donuts to the soldiers was probably considered fund-raising to help offset their real costs.
You don't seem to understand how non-profit organizations work.
A non-profit organization can still accept payment. It can still pay its employees. Its employees can even make a profit! The only thing that can't make a profit is the corporation itself. That means, if they're in the black at the end of the year, the money simply rolls into the next year. It isn't profit. It's just surplus. There are very tight restrictions on what they can do with the money. But paying their employees and buying equipment are certainly permitted uses of it, which is why it stinks of corruption when the people they're buying their technology from are simply themselves under the name of a different corporation, a for-profit corporation... mGive.com is a for-profit corp.
Not everything can be free and mgive needs money to continue operating.
Non-profits can take in money to continue operating. The difference is, if they have a surplus at the end of the year, they can't call it "profit" and award it as bonuses to their employees/shareholders.
mGive.com is a for-profit organization.
How do they measure "percent" of use?
The Italians apparently don't agree with you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza#Pizza_types
According to the rules proposed by the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, the genuine Neapolitan pizza [...] must be baked for 60–90 seconds in a 485 C (905 F) stone oven with an oak-wood fire. When cooked, it should be crispy, tender and fragrant.
The Air Force is also using the Condor to process ground-based radar images of space objects, again with extraordinary clarity. Barnell shows images of a space shuttle orbiting Earth at 5 miles a second. Without Condor processing, the shuttle image is a blurry black triangle. With Condor processing, it is sharp and distinct. It’s clear that its payload doors are open.
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Facebook isn't supposed to be appropriate for 10-year-olds.
There are plenty of GPS units that already warn about other forms of traffic back-up. That would be unnecessary duplication of feature.
It's power factor. Basically if your load is more inductive or more capacitive (the two balance each other out), you're wasting energy. A purely resistive load (neither inductive nor capacitive) is the most efficient.
Most loads are either inductive or resistive. Some places with very large inductive loads (e.g. large motors) have capacitor banks to help balance out their inductive loads, which improves their power factor.