For one, it's already kinda low. They aren't going to attract the people they want to attract with lower rates.
As other people have pointed out, your example isn't really very good, since they never said you'd get back all the money you spent.
They probably call it points in an attempt to get people to use it on the items instead of cash, since those probably cost them less and have less tax implications.
There was not an option like "I really, only need one copy of this".
Tivo does the same thing. If you delete an episode and they show the same one the next day, it records it again.
I have no clue why, but our Tivo keeps recording "Dead by Sunset". It doesn't match any wishlist, it just keeps recording it over and over and over and over in the suggestions.
We've told it thumbs down, but it doesn't seem to care.
I'm on DHCP on Cable. I don't think I'm the only one. I guess maybe the article wanted to show by demonstration how most statistics are made up on the spot.
Don't you know the custom here? If you don't know the answer to a question, you attack the person asking it, or point out why they need to change their situation entirely to change the question into one you know the answer to.:)
Terrapass doesn't sell (pure) carbon credits. Only 1/3rd of their money (after profits of course), goes to carbon credits. The rest goes to "investment in clean energy projects".
I know what an externality is. Quit acting like I don't.
The carbon credit idea and the Chicago Climate Exchange are a purely free market invention. They trade a commodity, carbon credits. Carbon credits are indulgences that allow people to pollute more. You buy carbon credits so you can pollute without repercussions.
Terrapass is at least honest. They tell you that you are only compensating for the CO2 emissions, and not helping all the nitric oxides, Sulfurs, etc that you also put out. However some people seem to have the impression that if you buy these magical carbon credits you undo all the damage for driving your SUV.
Maybe you could look up the definition of "moral hazard".
When you buy a carbon credit now, you are basically paying a farmer a subsidy to use farming methods that supposedly sequester carbon, at the rate of about $1 per acre. Things like no-till seeding.
You are also generally paying a huge markup to the actual company/organization that sells you the credit, which generally amounts of 80% of the price of the carbon credit.
Sure... carbon credits are sold by farms for about $2 per ton, retail carbon credit sites like http://www.certifiedcleancar.com/ sell them for about $10 per ton. If you ask them about the markup, they claim "administrative overhead" and "other alternative energy initiatives"...
I have one word for you: EXTERNALITY
Carbon credits are a supposedly free market solution to the pollution problem. If they do not serve that purpose, then they have failed. Instead of spending my money propping up a failed experiment, just give the money to the polluting companies to upgrade their shit to pollute less, rather than creating new farm subsidies.
If laws are needed to create demand, then your product is worthless.
Besides, if you buy carbon credits, the "exchanges" take a 500% markup on the carbon credits for "administrative" expenses. It's all a big scam to capitalize on guilty ex-hippies with SUVs.
My experience was "how many students can we keep enrolled for the longest term possible".
When I changed majors from the utterly useless CS to what I hoped was a more useful IT Management science degree, I was required to take an "intro to computers" course. How to use Word and Excel and how to copy and paste, I kid you not. I had just finished advanced data structures and they tell me there's no way I can skip this intro course in the new major.
I dropped out of school a year later. My grades weren't bad, I was just sick of the bullshit.
Yes it does need some mixing up. The first letters of english words are pretty biased. Adding some replacements to it, not really l33t but something like replacing one word with a symbol is a good idea.
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Hah that reminds me of the time I put in a season pass for IFC short film showcase.
It recorded the same thing 2-3 times a day until I turned it off.
Do these networks just not care about guide data?
I doubt it would go down.
For one, it's already kinda low. They aren't going to attract the people they want to attract with lower rates.
As other people have pointed out, your example isn't really very good, since they never said you'd get back all the money you spent.
They probably call it points in an attempt to get people to use it on the items instead of cash, since those probably cost them less and have less tax implications.
vimtutor
1 point is $1. You get $100 for resolving an "incident" that they claim will generally take less than 4 hours.
So $25 an hour or more. Not exactly inspiring, but not bad either, especially if it was shit you were going to fix in the next release anyway.
There was not an option like "I really, only need one copy of this".
Tivo does the same thing. If you delete an episode and they show the same one the next day, it records it again.
I have no clue why, but our Tivo keeps recording "Dead by Sunset". It doesn't match any wishlist, it just keeps recording it over and over and over and over in the suggestions.
We've told it thumbs down, but it doesn't seem to care.
Good luck. Simulating that in Havok is damn difficult.
Huh?
All I see in the store are 67.63 Fluid Ounce bottles. Where are these "2 liter" bottles you speak of?
Being a troll isn't the same as being an idiot. A real troll's victim will never realize they have been sucked in.
I'm on DHCP on Cable. I don't think I'm the only one. I guess maybe the article wanted to show by demonstration how most statistics are made up on the spot.
If you feed them jellybeans, they will do useful things for you.
Don't you know the custom here? If you don't know the answer to a question, you attack the person asking it, or point out why they need to change their situation entirely to change the question into one you know the answer to. :)
A good AGM gel should last about 4 years of daily cycling. That's pretty much all it'll get though.
What was the name of your localized wiki again? I must have missed it. Maybe you could link to it or something.
Nintendo has announced the new song for marketing Wii.
Terrapass doesn't sell (pure) carbon credits. Only 1/3rd of their money (after profits of course), goes to carbon credits. The rest goes to "investment in clean energy projects".
I know what an externality is. Quit acting like I don't.
The carbon credit idea and the Chicago Climate Exchange are a purely free market invention. They trade a commodity, carbon credits. Carbon credits are indulgences that allow people to pollute more. You buy carbon credits so you can pollute without repercussions.
Terrapass is at least honest. They tell you that you are only compensating for the CO2 emissions, and not helping all the nitric oxides, Sulfurs, etc that you also put out. However some people seem to have the impression that if you buy these magical carbon credits you undo all the damage for driving your SUV.
Maybe you could look up the definition of "moral hazard".
Just maybe, these software companies realize how broken the whole situation is, and intend to undo it this way.
Wishful thinking, but then again, I think at his heart, Bill Gates does care about the future.
This goes back to our other little discussion.
When you buy a carbon credit now, you are basically paying a farmer a subsidy to use farming methods that supposedly sequester carbon, at the rate of about $1 per acre. Things like no-till seeding.
You are also generally paying a huge markup to the actual company/organization that sells you the credit, which generally amounts of 80% of the price of the carbon credit.
Sure... carbon credits are sold by farms for about $2 per ton, retail carbon credit sites like http://www.certifiedcleancar.com/ sell them for about $10 per ton. If you ask them about the markup, they claim "administrative overhead" and "other alternative energy initiatives"...
I have one word for you: EXTERNALITY
Carbon credits are a supposedly free market solution to the pollution problem. If they do not serve that purpose, then they have failed. Instead of spending my money propping up a failed experiment, just give the money to the polluting companies to upgrade their shit to pollute less, rather than creating new farm subsidies.
If laws are needed to create demand, then your product is worthless.
Besides, if you buy carbon credits, the "exchanges" take a 500% markup on the carbon credits for "administrative" expenses. It's all a big scam to capitalize on guilty ex-hippies with SUVs.
But what about my story that's designed to start some stupid keyboard layout flamefest?!?!?
You are getting closer.
My experience was "how many students can we keep enrolled for the longest term possible".
When I changed majors from the utterly useless CS to what I hoped was a more useful IT Management science degree, I was required to take an "intro to computers" course. How to use Word and Excel and how to copy and paste, I kid you not. I had just finished advanced data structures and they tell me there's no way I can skip this intro course in the new major.
I dropped out of school a year later. My grades weren't bad, I was just sick of the bullshit.
Yes it does need some mixing up. The first letters of english words are pretty biased. Adding some replacements to it, not really l33t but something like replacing one word with a symbol is a good idea.
If you haven't learned logic and problem solving in grade school, you probably never will.
In my experience, level of higher education has nothing to do with that ability, which is either innate or learned very young.
They don't HAVE DVDs.
Bullshit. Every "poor" person I know has plenty of luxuries, generally gotten at one of those scammy "rent to own" places.
People who got hit with unexpected medical bills and get in over their heads will recover. Poor is a state of mind, not a state of finances.
Since I'm taking it at Capella, the discussion format of the course lets me air my challanges to the material.
If you have to take it in the normal lecture format, good luck.