Teslas would cost too much if they were made in New Jersey. You think $108,000 is too much for a car? If they were made in NJ, expect them to cost at least $200k. California is a much cheaper place than NJ, as strange as that sounds.
Maybe, but assuming a "brown guy" is neither a citizen nor a documented immigrant is racist. It's not wrong to hire some white redneck guy to paint your house or install a sprinkler system for you and pay him with cash, so if you say it's wrong to hire a brown guy to do those things, that makes you a racist. What if the brown guy is a citizen and his family has been here for 5 generations, and he just happens to be poor (just like countless white people who live in trailers in Mesa and Apache Junction)?
If you live in Mississippi and need some odd job done, it's not uncommon to hire some white redneck guy to do it, and pay him in cash. In Arizona, it's more common to hire some brown guy to do the same thing.
I'd prefer that the data be destroyed in accordance with the FISA court orders, and against the California court's orders. Then, I'd like to see the California court judge get pissed, and hold the NSA in contempt of court and order its officers arrested.
That's no worse than being surrounded by idiot, moron, Republicans.
Smart people know not to live in Missouri at all, in any part of the state. The Republican parts are full of morons who think "a woman's body has ways to shut that down", and St. Louis is one of the most crime-ridden, dangerous, and economically blighted cities in the country. There has to be something wrong with you to live in that state.
What I've always found interesting about these calls for "more XYZ workers" is that the people crying for more of these workers are themselves never willing to do those jobs. Instead, they're politicians, HR drones, etc.. If these jobs are so great, then why aren't they doing them? It smacks of disingenuity.
Depends on the language, but in English it denotes the start of a sentence or a proper name. For the first usage, it's much like data formatting in computers: a stream of data has a header so you know what the following data is. A capital letter shows that a new sentence is starting, and the punctuation at the end of the previous sentence (if any) wasn't just a speck of dust or mistake. Most languages have a certain level of redundancy built-in, if you think about it, since speech (especially hearing it) is naturally unreliable, and written words can be unreliable (esp. handwritten, but even typed pages can get damaged or torn). Capital letters are just another form of redundancy to improve reliability. They also look nice. For the second usage, they denote proper names, as those are considered more significant than regular nouns or other words.
In German, all nouns are capitalized. I'm not sure why.
To be fair, 800MB is still better than your standard DVD rip, which is probably 200-400MB. But yeah, 800MB is still lame; 2GB would probably be a much better copy. It'd also help if he dumped his crappy DivX;-) codec and moved to something more modern.
These under-the-table jobs are frequently not with normal employers. They might be with some guy who has a truck and runs a landscaping business, which consists of hiring day laborers or just guys he's familiar with, paying them cash, and driving them around to people's houses and having them cut the grass, trim the bushes, and weedwhack. They might just be regular individuals picking them up to do some random work at their house. If they speak English, they might just start their own "business", consisting of posting on Craigslist for various handyman-type work (landscaping, fixing block walls, drywall repair, etc.), which they do for cash at peoples' homes.
When you hire someone to paint some rooms in your house, you don't check their SSN (you'd have no right to) or have them fill out a W-2 form. You agree on a price for a job, they do it, you hand them cash, and that's it. Their taxes, as a sole proprietorship, are their business. This makes it pretty easy for people to work under the table without documentation.
Yes, it's true that lots of them work at restaurants and other service jobs this way. I'm not denying that. They're basically the tier above the day laborers, because working at McDonald's is much more reliable work than day labor. But there's also lots of day laborers and others working under the table.
Don't forget, those people paying taxes in ARE receiving benefits, since their income is reported against someone else's SSN, so they're free to claim no income and apply for benefits (WIC, etc.).
Throwing an object at near-lightspeed doesn't contradict our current observations of gravity at all. We're already able to overcome gravity and achieve escape velocity with rockets of sufficient thrust.
Do you have any examples which would contradict our current observations of gravity?
No, the landscapers where I used to live in Phoenix all worked under the table. They were paid in cash. You don't need an illegal ID to get paid cash for a job. Go pick up some day laborers from Home Depot on Thomas Rd. and ask them if they ever needed an ID to get a job that way.
So you think you might just float off the planet one day? Gravity is definitely settled. I never said our understanding of it was very good, just that the observation is universally agreed upon: large masses attract other mass. We've never seen a case where that doesn't happen. Big planets have high gravity, small moons have low gravity, always in proportion to mass; every observation we've made corroborates this. Every time we throw something in the air, it falls down (assuming aerodynamics don't affect it significantly). Are you going to say now that I'm wrong about this?
Illegals like that don't just sit around and not work; they frequently work under-the-table, so they keep their healthy benefits while getting extra tax-free spending money. All those landscapers you see driving around are not W-4 employees and do not pay any taxes into the system.
He might be talking about the screw-up happening because the person provided bad info in a hallway conversation. The people who like to leave long voicemails also like to talk a lot in the hallways rather than send emails.
Also, his company's voicemail system might automatically delete them after a certain (short) amount of time. If the person tells him something wrong and the SHTF two months later, the voicemail's probably already gone.
I haven't lived there, but I've been there several times. Thin gloves are perfectly adequate in Vancouver even during the winter. Not all of Canada is like Yellowknife.
Yes, I've heard this too. It does seem odd, so I wonder what the reason is; you'd think you'd want discs to be bigger, not smaller, as you get much more surface area on a larger platter, plus at a given speed, the outer edges are moving much faster than on a smaller platter, so the transfer speeds for that data will be very high. I must be missing something. Servers wouldn't be going to a smaller form factor just for the heck of it.
I'm a little surprised we haven't seen 5.25" drives already for servers, so I can only assume there's a good reason for that. Perhaps such large platters bend too much at the edges, making alignment problemtic, or maybe they can't be spun as fast reliably, making average access times poor (good on the fast-moving outer sectors, but slow on the inner sectors). The computer industry moved wholesale to 3.5" drives long ago, and there was only one brief fling with 5.25" at the very end: Quantum's "Bigfoot" drives which were 5.25" but very thin. I don't think they did too well and quickly disappeared from the market.
I think this is great. They need to not just monitor them, they need to surveil them Big Brother-style, with microphones and cameras in their houses and cars, even in their bedrooms. All their information, including financial information, and whatever they do on the internet, should be regularly monitored. Employees with secret+ clearances should be OK with this, or else they should find other jobs.
The other thing I'd worry about is the quality of the women. In NYC, you won't find many fat women. Texas isn't exactly known for being full of thin people, OTOH.
No, that's mostly BS, except the sales-driven mindset tidbit. I live next to Manhattan in north Jersey. There's a lot of jobs advertised in the Manhattan area which pay very high salaries. The problem is, they're mostly in the finance and sales industries. A lot of these dumb job ads even say "looking for someone with a passion for finance". WTF? Who has passion for finance? There's also a LOT of web development work (which of course doesn't pay as well as C or C++ development for high-speed trading firms), which is mostly from the advertising industry which is big here. Anyway, yes, the jobs are there, and the pay is good (I frequently see salaries of $120k - $200k advertised), but the industries are different than in other areas for the most part. If you're coming from some other part of the country with lots of experience in some other industry, you probably won't do well here.
Also, the culture is very different here from some other places and industries. Agile development is all the rage it seems, as are totally open-plan work areas where they just have a bunch of big tables in a giant renovated warehouse and everyone sits as these tables together. Basically, it seems that Facebook-type hipsters rule here. Though this may vary by industry, but it's what I've seen and heard about a lot of places here, including Bloomberg LP (financial reporting company).
Poor people aren't exactly known for having lower crime rates than average. There's a reason ghettos have higher crime rates than upper-middle-class neighborhoods.
We've already observed actual speciation (sp?) in living animals (where an animal evolves so it can't reproduce with others it's descended from), and we have enormous fossil evidence. No, it's not quite as obvious as throwing a ball in the air and watching it fall to the ground, but it's just a matter of degree as far as evidence is concerned.
I only brought this up because it's not just the theories that religious nuts disagree with, it's the actual evidence. We're lucky that the Bible doesn't say that things don't fall upwards, or else they'd be denying gravity too.
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Teslas would cost too much if they were made in New Jersey. You think $108,000 is too much for a car? If they were made in NJ, expect them to cost at least $200k. California is a much cheaper place than NJ, as strange as that sounds.
Maybe, but assuming a "brown guy" is neither a citizen nor a documented immigrant is racist. It's not wrong to hire some white redneck guy to paint your house or install a sprinkler system for you and pay him with cash, so if you say it's wrong to hire a brown guy to do those things, that makes you a racist. What if the brown guy is a citizen and his family has been here for 5 generations, and he just happens to be poor (just like countless white people who live in trailers in Mesa and Apache Junction)?
If you live in Mississippi and need some odd job done, it's not uncommon to hire some white redneck guy to do it, and pay him in cash. In Arizona, it's more common to hire some brown guy to do the same thing.
Pro tip; If you see a resume that says; "20 years of iPhone programming experience" -- that's also a sign that someone is fudging the numbers.
No, it's not. That's a sign that HR workers are complete idiots.
I'd prefer that the data be destroyed in accordance with the FISA court orders, and against the California court's orders. Then, I'd like to see the California court judge get pissed, and hold the NSA in contempt of court and order its officers arrested.
That's no worse than being surrounded by idiot, moron, Republicans.
Smart people know not to live in Missouri at all, in any part of the state. The Republican parts are full of morons who think "a woman's body has ways to shut that down", and St. Louis is one of the most crime-ridden, dangerous, and economically blighted cities in the country. There has to be something wrong with you to live in that state.
What I've always found interesting about these calls for "more XYZ workers" is that the people crying for more of these workers are themselves never willing to do those jobs. Instead, they're politicians, HR drones, etc.. If these jobs are so great, then why aren't they doing them? It smacks of disingenuity.
Depends on the language, but in English it denotes the start of a sentence or a proper name. For the first usage, it's much like data formatting in computers: a stream of data has a header so you know what the following data is. A capital letter shows that a new sentence is starting, and the punctuation at the end of the previous sentence (if any) wasn't just a speck of dust or mistake. Most languages have a certain level of redundancy built-in, if you think about it, since speech (especially hearing it) is naturally unreliable, and written words can be unreliable (esp. handwritten, but even typed pages can get damaged or torn). Capital letters are just another form of redundancy to improve reliability. They also look nice. For the second usage, they denote proper names, as those are considered more significant than regular nouns or other words.
In German, all nouns are capitalized. I'm not sure why.
To be fair, 800MB is still better than your standard DVD rip, which is probably 200-400MB. But yeah, 800MB is still lame; 2GB would probably be a much better copy. It'd also help if he dumped his crappy DivX;-) codec and moved to something more modern.
These under-the-table jobs are frequently not with normal employers. They might be with some guy who has a truck and runs a landscaping business, which consists of hiring day laborers or just guys he's familiar with, paying them cash, and driving them around to people's houses and having them cut the grass, trim the bushes, and weedwhack. They might just be regular individuals picking them up to do some random work at their house. If they speak English, they might just start their own "business", consisting of posting on Craigslist for various handyman-type work (landscaping, fixing block walls, drywall repair, etc.), which they do for cash at peoples' homes.
When you hire someone to paint some rooms in your house, you don't check their SSN (you'd have no right to) or have them fill out a W-2 form. You agree on a price for a job, they do it, you hand them cash, and that's it. Their taxes, as a sole proprietorship, are their business. This makes it pretty easy for people to work under the table without documentation.
Yes, it's true that lots of them work at restaurants and other service jobs this way. I'm not denying that. They're basically the tier above the day laborers, because working at McDonald's is much more reliable work than day labor. But there's also lots of day laborers and others working under the table.
Don't forget, those people paying taxes in ARE receiving benefits, since their income is reported against someone else's SSN, so they're free to claim no income and apply for benefits (WIC, etc.).
Throwing an object at near-lightspeed doesn't contradict our current observations of gravity at all. We're already able to overcome gravity and achieve escape velocity with rockets of sufficient thrust.
Do you have any examples which would contradict our current observations of gravity?
No, the landscapers where I used to live in Phoenix all worked under the table. They were paid in cash. You don't need an illegal ID to get paid cash for a job. Go pick up some day laborers from Home Depot on Thomas Rd. and ask them if they ever needed an ID to get a job that way.
So you think you might just float off the planet one day? Gravity is definitely settled. I never said our understanding of it was very good, just that the observation is universally agreed upon: large masses attract other mass. We've never seen a case where that doesn't happen. Big planets have high gravity, small moons have low gravity, always in proportion to mass; every observation we've made corroborates this. Every time we throw something in the air, it falls down (assuming aerodynamics don't affect it significantly). Are you going to say now that I'm wrong about this?
Illegals like that don't just sit around and not work; they frequently work under-the-table, so they keep their healthy benefits while getting extra tax-free spending money. All those landscapers you see driving around are not W-4 employees and do not pay any taxes into the system.
He might be talking about the screw-up happening because the person provided bad info in a hallway conversation. The people who like to leave long voicemails also like to talk a lot in the hallways rather than send emails.
Also, his company's voicemail system might automatically delete them after a certain (short) amount of time. If the person tells him something wrong and the SHTF two months later, the voicemail's probably already gone.
I haven't lived there, but I've been there several times. Thin gloves are perfectly adequate in Vancouver even during the winter. Not all of Canada is like Yellowknife.
Yes, I've heard this too. It does seem odd, so I wonder what the reason is; you'd think you'd want discs to be bigger, not smaller, as you get much more surface area on a larger platter, plus at a given speed, the outer edges are moving much faster than on a smaller platter, so the transfer speeds for that data will be very high. I must be missing something. Servers wouldn't be going to a smaller form factor just for the heck of it.
I'm a little surprised we haven't seen 5.25" drives already for servers, so I can only assume there's a good reason for that. Perhaps such large platters bend too much at the edges, making alignment problemtic, or maybe they can't be spun as fast reliably, making average access times poor (good on the fast-moving outer sectors, but slow on the inner sectors). The computer industry moved wholesale to 3.5" drives long ago, and there was only one brief fling with 5.25" at the very end: Quantum's "Bigfoot" drives which were 5.25" but very thin. I don't think they did too well and quickly disappeared from the market.
They make gloves that work with touchscreens now. They're only in the thinner gloves, though, not the giant arctic gloves.
Equivalent Series Resistance. It's a measure of the resistance in a capacitor.
I think this is great. They need to not just monitor them, they need to surveil them Big Brother-style, with microphones and cameras in their houses and cars, even in their bedrooms. All their information, including financial information, and whatever they do on the internet, should be regularly monitored. Employees with secret+ clearances should be OK with this, or else they should find other jobs.
But how does that gender ratio vary by age range?
The other thing I'd worry about is the quality of the women. In NYC, you won't find many fat women. Texas isn't exactly known for being full of thin people, OTOH.
No, that's mostly BS, except the sales-driven mindset tidbit. I live next to Manhattan in north Jersey. There's a lot of jobs advertised in the Manhattan area which pay very high salaries. The problem is, they're mostly in the finance and sales industries. A lot of these dumb job ads even say "looking for someone with a passion for finance". WTF? Who has passion for finance? There's also a LOT of web development work (which of course doesn't pay as well as C or C++ development for high-speed trading firms), which is mostly from the advertising industry which is big here. Anyway, yes, the jobs are there, and the pay is good (I frequently see salaries of $120k - $200k advertised), but the industries are different than in other areas for the most part. If you're coming from some other part of the country with lots of experience in some other industry, you probably won't do well here.
Also, the culture is very different here from some other places and industries. Agile development is all the rage it seems, as are totally open-plan work areas where they just have a bunch of big tables in a giant renovated warehouse and everyone sits as these tables together. Basically, it seems that Facebook-type hipsters rule here. Though this may vary by industry, but it's what I've seen and heard about a lot of places here, including Bloomberg LP (financial reporting company).
Poor people aren't exactly known for having lower crime rates than average. There's a reason ghettos have higher crime rates than upper-middle-class neighborhoods.
We've already observed actual speciation (sp?) in living animals (where an animal evolves so it can't reproduce with others it's descended from), and we have enormous fossil evidence. No, it's not quite as obvious as throwing a ball in the air and watching it fall to the ground, but it's just a matter of degree as far as evidence is concerned.
I only brought this up because it's not just the theories that religious nuts disagree with, it's the actual evidence. We're lucky that the Bible doesn't say that things don't fall upwards, or else they'd be denying gravity too.