Be sure you blame the right company. Labels with tracking numbers are printed by the retailer and are shown to customers BEFORE the package is picked up by UPS.
I've seen lots of cases where the package wasn't actually handed off to UPS for a while after the retailer claims it was shipped.
The problem with trying to have a conversation with you is your insistence in casting everything in absolutes.
The fact is you can turn them on and off. I have a dozen or so in my home that are over 3 years old now, and they get turned off and on a couple of times per day.
What is not advisable is using them in something like a bathroom where they may get turned off and on much more frequently. The published data states that if you turn them off and on in 5 min cycles you reduce their lifetime to that of an incandescent bulb. If the on-off cycle is longer than 15 minutes the effect is minimal.
So use halogens in your bathroom and you won't have this problem.
Is a little bit of common sense too much to ask?
If you find yourself hating some inanimate object maybe you should consider if this is an excessive response or not. Especially when there are perfectly rational alternatives.
CFLs lifetime is not particularly affected by power quality.
It is however affected by how you use it. For example turning it off and on frequently will dramatically reduce the lifetime. Ditto on using one on a dimmer that isn't explicitly rated as dimmable, or in a reflector.
This is why I'm going to halogens for bathrooms...
So you are saying the Founders were dissembling when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. And Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a Trojan Horse aimed at raising a revolution in order to reduce taxes for a bunch of entrepreneurs.
That is a strong candidate for the most ridiculous argument raised in the history of Slashdot.
Determination towards being able to live one's life free from external impositions. Simple things like being able to appoint the judges you want. Or not having to quarter troops in your home.
Go back and read the Declaration. Or Common Sense.
It was NOT a revolt against taxation. It was a revolt against having laws (including taxes) imposed without consent of the governed.
LIKE IT SAYS IN THE BLESSED PREAMBLE.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
The FUNDAMENTAL point here is that British rule was not legitimate because it was imposed without the consent of the governed.
Calling it a tax revolt is an insult to the Founders and pure revisionism to further a partisan political argument. At best. Otherwise it's just a lie for the purpose of demagoguery.
The problem is the way tax law is working, companies have become effective at moving their profits from the markets where the actual business is to countries like Bermuda.
Italy is using new laws to capture taxes on the transactions their markets generate.
Given the large debt loads now carried by developed nations I expect this to become popular.
Job creation doesn't necessarily occur in the country the corporation is located in, or where their shareholders live.
All having low taxation does is cause shell corporations to be set up in your country. Like the ones in Bermuda this article cites. Bermuda may get some wealth that way, but surely minuscule compared to the total economic power of the corporation.
Really this is a global problem, where an entity can set up an extraterritorial operation and avoid taxation.
Amazon does it to avoid sales taxes and so forth in the United States. Google and Apple do it to avoid taxes in particular countries.
Simply these shenanigans will cause states and countries to extend their cooperation across these boundaries. Eventually there will be a national sales tax system, and an international sales tax.
Although ambiguity is considered a flaw in writing, many writers use this technique to allow readers to understand their works in a variety of ways giving them depth and complexity. Let us analyze some examples in literature.
1. Read the following excerpt from âoeThe Catcher in the Ryeâ by J. D. Salinger:
âoeI ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. Iâ(TM)m quite a heavy smoker, for one thingâ"that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. Thatâ(TM)s also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. Iâ(TM)m pretty healthy though.â
The words âoetheyâ and âoehereâ used by a character âoeHolden Caulfieldâ are ambiguous. But the readers are allowed to presume from the context that âoetheyâ might be the professionals helping out Holden and âoehereâ might be a rehabilitation center.
2. A short lyric âoeThe Sick Roseâ written by William Blake is full of ambiguities:
âoeHas found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroyâ
Many of the words in above lines show ambiguity. We cannot say for sure what âoecrimson bed of joyâ means neither can we be exact about the interpretation of âoedark secret loveâ. The ambiguous nature of such phrases allows readers to explore for deeper meanings of the poem. Here âoewormâ spoils chastity of âoeroseâ in her âoecrimson bed of joyâ a reference to making love.
3. On a larger scale ambiguity may develop in a character or in an entire story. For instance, Hamlet is a morally ambiguous character. He kills to avenge his fatherâ(TM)s murder. He is good because he wants to protect his mother but he is bad because he is willing to kill whom he must to achieve this end. The ambiguity in Hamletâ(TM)s character is seen when he is hurt by the death of âoeOpheliaâ which is his personal loss, but he does not feel for the effect of his actions is going to have on others.
4. We find ambiguity in the first line of Keatsâ(TM)s âoeOde to a Grecian Urnâ:
âoeThou still unravishâ(TM)d bride of quietness,â
The use of word âoestillâ is ambiguous in nature. âoeStillâ here may mean âoean inanimate objectâ or it may be interpreted as âoeyet unchangedâ.
The word crime has several meanings of which only one is "an illegal act".
Another definition is "a grave offense against morality".
It is possible, and in fact sometimes useful to create sentence that places multiple meanings in play at once. It's one of the devices that makes the English language and literature interesting.
Obamacare was originally the government heathcare plan designed to be an alternative to the public offerings in the PPACA. This was so broadly perceived as government interference in the private sector that enough Democrats declined to support it to make passing the bill impossible.
Later the PPACA was called Obamacare as a way to disparage it and to try to attach blame for the unpopular aspects of it to the President as a political ploy.
However even Mr. Obama now calls it Obamacare, so I guess if you call it by its official name you will are likely to just confuse people.
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Be sure you blame the right company. Labels with tracking numbers are printed by the retailer and are shown to customers BEFORE the package is picked up by UPS.
I've seen lots of cases where the package wasn't actually handed off to UPS for a while after the retailer claims it was shipped.
The problem with trying to have a conversation with you is your insistence in casting everything in absolutes.
The fact is you can turn them on and off. I have a dozen or so in my home that are over 3 years old now, and they get turned off and on a couple of times per day.
What is not advisable is using them in something like a bathroom where they may get turned off and on much more frequently. The published data states that if you turn them off and on in 5 min cycles you reduce their lifetime to that of an incandescent bulb. If the on-off cycle is longer than 15 minutes the effect is minimal.
So use halogens in your bathroom and you won't have this problem.
Is a little bit of common sense too much to ask?
If you find yourself hating some inanimate object maybe you should consider if this is an excessive response or not. Especially when there are perfectly rational alternatives.
CFLs lifetime is not particularly affected by power quality.
It is however affected by how you use it. For example turning it off and on frequently will dramatically reduce the lifetime. Ditto on using one on a dimmer that isn't explicitly rated as dimmable, or in a reflector.
This is why I'm going to halogens for bathrooms...
It's really unreasonable criteria to focus on initial cost. What truly matters is full life-cycle cost.
I replaced the bulk of the incandescent bulbs in my home, about 15, two years ago with CFL. Cheap ones from Home Depot.
I've had two failures. I believe the savings in electricity has been enough to more than pay for the failed bulbs so far.
I hope you enjoy spending money needlessly, because that's what you will be doing with those incandescent bulbs.
Uh....
14 US Senators do not avow that they are Christian.
So you are saying the Founders were dissembling when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. And Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a Trojan Horse aimed at raising a revolution in order to reduce taxes for a bunch of entrepreneurs.
That is a strong candidate for the most ridiculous argument raised in the history of Slashdot.
Many Americans are shocked to find out how religion and the state are still tied together in even Western Europe.
They are doing still stuff that was ruled out in the US before the revolution.
In a lot of ways the fact that America is so religious is due to the separation allowing for more freedom and diversity.
> Is it just me or is every Google+ user that posts to slashdot a douchebag?
So I see you are just as guilty of stereotyping as any racist.
Determination towards being able to live one's life free from external impositions. Simple things like being able to appoint the judges you want. Or not having to quarter troops in your home.
Go back and read the Declaration. Or Common Sense.
It was NOT a revolt against taxation. It was a revolt against having laws (including taxes) imposed without consent of the governed.
LIKE IT SAYS IN THE BLESSED PREAMBLE.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
The FUNDAMENTAL point here is that British rule was not legitimate because it was imposed without the consent of the governed.
Calling it a tax revolt is an insult to the Founders and pure revisionism to further a partisan political argument. At best. Otherwise it's just a lie for the purpose of demagoguery.
The part where you are trying to get tenure or a contract renewal.
Oh My.
America's chief reason for revolting was to obtain self-determination.
READ THE DECLARATION. Taxes are not mentioned until the 17th grievance.
The problem is the way tax law is working, companies have become effective at moving their profits from the markets where the actual business is to countries like Bermuda.
Italy is using new laws to capture taxes on the transactions their markets generate.
Given the large debt loads now carried by developed nations I expect this to become popular.
Isn't that the recent environment in Somalia?
Job creation doesn't necessarily occur in the country the corporation is located in, or where their shareholders live.
All having low taxation does is cause shell corporations to be set up in your country. Like the ones in Bermuda this article cites. Bermuda may get some wealth that way, but surely minuscule compared to the total economic power of the corporation.
Right now that appears to be China.
Really this is a global problem, where an entity can set up an extraterritorial operation and avoid taxation.
Amazon does it to avoid sales taxes and so forth in the United States. Google and Apple do it to avoid taxes in particular countries.
Simply these shenanigans will cause states and countries to extend their cooperation across these boundaries. Eventually there will be a national sales tax system, and an international sales tax.
Here is something for your education, from:
http://literarydevices.net/ambiguity/
Examples of Ambiguity in Literature
Although ambiguity is considered a flaw in writing, many writers use this technique to allow readers to understand their works in a variety of ways giving them depth and complexity. Let us analyze some examples in literature.
1. Read the following excerpt from âoeThe Catcher in the Ryeâ by J. D. Salinger:
âoeI ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. Iâ(TM)m quite a heavy smoker, for one thingâ"that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. Thatâ(TM)s also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. Iâ(TM)m pretty healthy though.â
The words âoetheyâ and âoehereâ used by a character âoeHolden Caulfieldâ are ambiguous. But the readers are allowed to presume from the context that âoetheyâ might be the professionals helping out Holden and âoehereâ might be a rehabilitation center.
2. A short lyric âoeThe Sick Roseâ written by William Blake is full of ambiguities:
âoeHas found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroyâ
Many of the words in above lines show ambiguity. We cannot say for sure what âoecrimson bed of joyâ means neither can we be exact about the interpretation of âoedark secret loveâ. The ambiguous nature of such phrases allows readers to explore for deeper meanings of the poem. Here âoewormâ spoils chastity of âoeroseâ in her âoecrimson bed of joyâ a reference to making love.
3. On a larger scale ambiguity may develop in a character or in an entire story. For instance, Hamlet is a morally ambiguous character. He kills to avenge his fatherâ(TM)s murder. He is good because he wants to protect his mother but he is bad because he is willing to kill whom he must to achieve this end. The ambiguity in Hamletâ(TM)s character is seen when he is hurt by the death of âoeOpheliaâ which is his personal loss, but he does not feel for the effect of his actions is going to have on others.
4. We find ambiguity in the first line of Keatsâ(TM)s âoeOde to a Grecian Urnâ:
âoeThou still unravishâ(TM)d bride of quietness,â
The use of word âoestillâ is ambiguous in nature. âoeStillâ here may mean âoean inanimate objectâ or it may be interpreted as âoeyet unchangedâ.
The word crime has several meanings of which only one is "an illegal act".
Another definition is "a grave offense against morality".
It is possible, and in fact sometimes useful to create sentence that places multiple meanings in play at once. It's one of the devices that makes the English language and literature interesting.
Too bad you missed all that.
I would have hated to be your English teacher.
What Mr Turing pled guilty to is not a crime. That he and any one else should have been treated as criminals, and how they were treated is the crime.
Anyone ever treated this way deserves a pardon and more, our most humble apologies.
Sounds like you are exploring the world of logical fallacies today.
Have fun.
On the Infographic there is a link:
A Google employee's comparison of Computer Science education in Vietnam compared to the US. #WeCanDoBetter http://t.co/oRPRy2pSFm
THIS IS THE REAL STORY. What really needs to be done.
FIX THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.
It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
Obamacare was originally the government heathcare plan designed to be an alternative to the public offerings in the PPACA. This was so broadly perceived as government interference in the private sector that enough Democrats declined to support it to make passing the bill impossible.
Later the PPACA was called Obamacare as a way to disparage it and to try to attach blame for the unpopular aspects of it to the President as a political ploy.
However even Mr. Obama now calls it Obamacare, so I guess if you call it by its official name you will are likely to just confuse people.
Actual rational commentary unencumbered by raving political partisanship.
How is this legal?