All you gotta do is go into your router, copy the existing DNS servers, and manullay configure them with the last octet as 14 (decimal) and you'll be moved to the old-skewl dns errors.
Ah, but you see, post-grad grades are awarded much like what were talking about in this article. You start with a 'B', and you have to really screw up to get less than that. That's why so many Masters people are not what you expect. If you get a masters, you have to redeem yourself by getting a PhD too.
Part of the problem is most people who get masters degrees already have fill-time jobs and the instructors know it. Whereas for undergrad degrees you're expected to be a full-time student.
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I did some looking and if spelt was a word (in the verb sense) then there should also be "misspelt". However according to M-W, it "misspelt" does not exist. Therefore I reject the "misspelt" as a misspelled word. This is akin to my rejection of "characteristicks" (the George Washington spelling)
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Shit. There goes the language. Same with snuck and sneaked I guess.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. - Mark Twain.
And what you do, is remove 30% of the value for those trying to get A's.
This kind of hippie love-in that rewards laziness is the same mentality that reinforces the prior thinking of the banking industry. We NEED to FAIL people so we can judge them and make sure they get the place they DESERVE in society. Or, rather, make sure they DON"T get into the WRONG places in society. (i.e. positions of power for which they are ill suited).
Now, I am not against "fixing" grades for those who went through some trauma in the year. But if there is a general pattern of lazy behavior, there is no way these people should get free points. And you seem to agree with that. But I would be more strict. Don't let them be able to manipulate you, let the requirements (and documentation) be met for trauma.
Subject mastery is not boolean. I certainly don't want to hire anyone who got a grade of "pass" for my project team. I want to hire only "A" students.
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spelt?
SPELT?
You have no room to speak. It's "spelled". Hooked on phonics did/not/ work for you!
It has been said by people far smarter than myself that "there is no business case for HighDef". And really, it is an incremental upgrade to our brains, at huge infrastructure costs. I remember the Matrix on DVD, I saw the Marix on HDDVD, and you know what, it/didn't/change the movie one bit. The plot and characters are what is important, not the pixels per inch. It is for that reason that the current DVD base still has a high value to the consumer. Our brains can't really find value in something that is sharper than our memory.
You missed the point. You can never have anything to invest if you don't subscribe to deferred gratification.
The success of investing is determined by your cost basis subtracted from your income. In Warren's case, he had a low cost basis (a broken machine) invested time (at zero cost basis) and created something that was able to pay him back over time.
The problem with investing in markets, is markets get to set the value, and the are really, really good at that.
I routinely make 5% on short-term investments (up to a week). My problem is I have not yet compounded enough capital to make it appreciable.
Everyone can, to varying degrees of success. Again, the market is the issue. For Warren's case, the markets were for the merchandise o be sold and the value of the broken machine. Had he attacked it from a different angle, where the machine was priced based on is earning potential, it never would have been so successful.
You need only be creative on how to find the value that the market does not yet see. Sometimes you have to create that value yourself. Sometimes its there, just not realized.
Well, if you have house (and not in danger of losing it), you're not in the poorest part of the economy. Lets no forget that all taxes are regressive. You can only eat so much food, drive so many places, and buy so many things that the differnce in lifestyle costs between $100k and 200k isn't as large as it is between $25k and $50k. You probably also have a 401 or some kind of deferral which further lowers your tax rate. The poor don't get 401ks.
Still, I would be surprised if you were lower than 15%. But the rich don't make their money at wages - that's just for petty cash. They make their money (and the vast majority) on investments, which is effortless, and taxed the least. The whole system favors the rich.
Fortunately, it only takes one thing to go from poor to rich - the ability to have deferred gratification. With that, you can put your money to working for you, and not you for your money.
1) The rich right the laws; they never pay. Why do you think capital gains is 15%. Why do you pay 25-38% on your income tax?
2) Banks are corner stones of the economy. We allow the banks to lend 10x what is on deposit. So for every dollar on hand, 10 get lent out. That's why they want you to buy CDs. If a bank fails and it had $85B on hand, then it takes $850B out of the economy. If enough banks fail, we have a credit crisis and deflation.
So that is why. Now if lending practices only requires 2:1 or 1:1 we'd be in a far better position in terms of stabilty, but we couldn't grow the economy on credit.
There is of course, the acounting change that could be made that says you can only count the payments that you have received. Currently, when you get a loan to buy a car, it is recorded as one sale-one transaction. But the real situation is you'll be making 1/50th of the total price in payments over 60 months. That would go along way in realistically measuring the finances better.
Think or swim was awarded "best software-based broker by Barrons" and hasd desktop, net and mobile clients.
But I am looking for a automated trading API for charlesschwab. But if I had to liquidate my holdings and move to another brokerage, I'd do it. I'd prefer an interface in python, php or even (gasp) perl.
How am I supposed to be proud that I still live at home, I haven't been laid...ever, and the best thing going for me is some people respect be because of my moderately low slashdot uid?
When you have an oppressive government, every citizen is a potential terrorist.
I can only explain it as such: The government expects some massive revolt soon, and it needs to be able to target any organizing into a power structure. Being that roads will be used to get to targets, they need to identify the people they need to watch and see them coming.
As for why, I have to say it is economic collapse. There is no way we can continue to bail out these banks, have "world police actions", and fund national health care. In true political fashion they will deny it to the last, then spin it. Then when we actually have to know the truth, the ruling party (the rich) will have already adjusted leaving the rest of us with no recourse but to get their heads on a stick... If there is any accountability at all.
I cannot see any good times ahead for the US. The people I work with and I agree this is the beginning of the decline of the US to a living standard more on par with the rest of the world. But hey, at least we'll have universal health care and/or cheap oil.
This is nothing. All those tire pressure sensors that are now required all have unique IDs and can be read from feet away, so now you can identify every car passing by.
The dragon cannot appreciate the tiger's position because he is not a tiger. The tiger is in the same situation. This extends not just to professional skills, but to a personal level as well. As one of the few geeks trying to run a small business, I can definitely seen how I've caused some pain to the owners before.
I suggest being a business owner to find out jsut how different it is. 1. Social skills matter. 2. Your product is the best, you have to believe that so your customers do too. 3. You have to worry about costs. Make payroll or get that new gigabit router...? 4. Unless you work for a software company, your IT systems are a cost center, not revenue producing. You need to focus on increasing revenue and limit costs. 5. IT exists to serve the company, the company is a document, a legal fiction to make money for the owners in some business.
From the other side: 1. Business people want to get their money's worth out of you. 2. You are smarter than they are; but they make more money than you do. (See, smarts != compensation. You can be an idiot, but if you can sell, you get 10% or more just by connecting people) 3. Business people are creative in inexactitudes. You're not. You're technical on specifics. 4. You see limitations and flaws in your own product. 5. Business is trying to make money, you're just trying to make your job easier.
Hopefully that will help you see the other side. The other thing you can do is visit your company's customers. See what is important to them about your company. It won't be you. Now realize that your business people care more about the customer than you. Now see your real part in the business.
What you really have is an opportunity. Be the person who bridges the two. You have an opportunity, and the business people, if you can work with them, should reward you and advance you as a natural consequence of appreciating their position.
They can because of current technical limitations. And I don't feel bad about it.
The problem is only voice packages get compared. Texts are in the periphery.
To fix this, I propose the following solution: we treat phones as a-la-carte services. That means your voice provider can be ATT, your data provider can be Verizon and your text provider T-Mobile.
This strategy would then provide the required market forces for bringing texting costs under control - namely competition.
Let's not forget that 2d performance does not cause thermal loading. It is 3d loading that you pay for and is what creates all the heat. What you need to do is play a 3d game, exit, return repeatedly. This will get the heat expansion and cooling which will eventually cause failure.
If you're in all 3d, all the time, then you still won't subject it to the stresses.
The worst thing you could do is play a game, and shut down the computer immediately. This would result in the most significant wear scenario.
The term is "promote" as in make better, not "provide for"
The statement is clearly aimed to bias the actions of the federal government towards the promotion if conditions in the country via the enumerated powers granted in the constitution - by making laws, trade, monetary policy, treaties, etc. It does not however confer any authority to tax the rich to feed the poor. No where is this more evident than with the passage of the income tax. The nation was at the time, substantially funded by import tariffs which affected the poor far more than the rich. The income tax was supposed to relieve the import taxes (20% of an item's cost) and place that burden on the rich who merely made money by having money. That is the spirit of the statement.
I have no idea how anyone knowing anything about the constitution, could ever say the founders envisioned a federal government that was to provide for its people. Surely, if this was an aim, they would have said it in more than 4 words... In fact this is our 2nd constitution, with the first having been scrapped due to states having to much power and the federal not enough. What we have is a incremented federal power, while still preserving the sovereignty of the states. Given that you're supposed to be a state citizen first, how could the founders ever intend for the federal to support everyone in a nation?
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All you gotta do is go into your router, copy the existing DNS servers, and manullay configure them with the last octet as 14 (decimal) and you'll be moved to the old-skewl dns errors.
e.g. XX.XX.XX.12 becomes XX.XX.XX.14
Ah, but you see, post-grad grades are awarded much like what were talking about in this article. You start with a 'B', and you have to really screw up to get less than that. That's why so many Masters people are not what you expect. If you get a masters, you have to redeem yourself by getting a PhD too.
Part of the problem is most people who get masters degrees already have fill-time jobs and the instructors know it. Whereas for undergrad degrees you're expected to be a full-time student.
I did some looking and if spelt was a word (in the verb sense) then there should also be "misspelt". However according to M-W, it "misspelt" does not exist. Therefore I reject the "misspelt" as a misspelled word. This is akin to my rejection of "characteristicks" (the George Washington spelling)
Shit. There goes the language. Same with snuck and sneaked I guess.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. - Mark Twain.
And what you do, is remove 30% of the value for those trying to get A's.
This kind of hippie love-in that rewards laziness is the same mentality that reinforces the prior thinking of the banking industry. We NEED to FAIL people so we can judge them and make sure they get the place they DESERVE in society. Or, rather, make sure they DON"T get into the WRONG places in society. (i.e. positions of power for which they are ill suited).
Now, I am not against "fixing" grades for those who went through some trauma in the year. But if there is a general pattern of lazy behavior, there is no way these people should get free points. And you seem to agree with that. But I would be more strict. Don't let them be able to manipulate you, let the requirements (and documentation) be met for trauma.
Subject mastery is not boolean. I certainly don't want to hire anyone who got a grade of "pass" for my project team. I want to hire only "A" students.
spelt?
SPELT?
You have no room to speak. It's "spelled". Hooked on phonics did /not/ work for you!
So when will live sports be appearing on BluRay?
I thought the definition rested on the the ability of the offspring to procreate successfully.
Which, I am told, does happen occasionally for jack-asses.
It has been said by people far smarter than myself that "there is no business case for HighDef". And really, it is an incremental upgrade to our brains, at huge infrastructure costs. I remember the Matrix on DVD, I saw the Marix on HDDVD, and you know what, it /didn't/change the movie one bit. The plot and characters are what is important, not the pixels per inch. It is for that reason that the current DVD base still has a high value to the consumer. Our brains can't really find value in something that is sharper than our memory.
I found Jesus too, he steals hubcaps from cars.
I have to agree with all of what you said.
While cliche, for anyone reading this, I recomend "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" for a new perspective on how to handle money.
You missed the point. You can never have anything to invest if you don't subscribe to deferred gratification.
The success of investing is determined by your cost basis subtracted from your income. In Warren's case, he had a low cost basis (a broken machine) invested time (at zero cost basis) and created something that was able to pay him back over time.
The problem with investing in markets, is markets get to set the value, and the are really, really good at that.
I routinely make 5% on short-term investments (up to a week). My problem is I have not yet compounded enough capital to make it appreciable.
Everyone can, to varying degrees of success. Again, the market is the issue. For Warren's case, the markets were for the merchandise o be sold and the value of the broken machine. Had he attacked it from a different angle, where the machine was priced based on is earning potential, it never would have been so successful.
You need only be creative on how to find the value that the market does not yet see. Sometimes you have to create that value yourself. Sometimes its there, just not realized.
Well, if you have house (and not in danger of losing it), you're not in the poorest part of the economy. Lets no forget that all taxes are regressive. You can only eat so much food, drive so many places, and buy so many things that the differnce in lifestyle costs between $100k and 200k isn't as large as it is between $25k and $50k. You probably also have a 401 or some kind of deferral which further lowers your tax rate. The poor don't get 401ks.
Still, I would be surprised if you were lower than 15%. But the rich don't make their money at wages - that's just for petty cash. They make their money (and the vast majority) on investments, which is effortless, and taxed the least. The whole system favors the rich.
Fortunately, it only takes one thing to go from poor to rich - the ability to have deferred gratification. With that, you can put your money to working for you, and not you for your money.
1) The rich right the laws; they never pay. Why do you think capital gains is 15%. Why do you pay 25-38% on your income tax?
2) Banks are corner stones of the economy. We allow the banks to lend 10x what is on deposit. So for every dollar on hand, 10 get lent out. That's why they want you to buy CDs. If a bank fails and it had $85B on hand, then it takes $850B out of the economy. If enough banks fail, we have a credit crisis and deflation.
So that is why. Now if lending practices only requires 2:1 or 1:1 we'd be in a far better position in terms of stabilty, but we couldn't grow the economy on credit.
There is of course, the acounting change that could be made that says you can only count the payments that you have received. Currently, when you get a loan to buy a car, it is recorded as one sale-one transaction. But the real situation is you'll be making 1/50th of the total price in payments over 60 months. That would go along way in realistically measuring the finances better.
I don't know if this is what you're looking for.
Think or swim was awarded "best software-based broker by Barrons" and hasd desktop, net and mobile clients.
But I am looking for a automated trading API for charlesschwab. But if I had to liquidate my holdings and move to another brokerage, I'd do it. I'd prefer an interface in python, php or even (gasp) perl.
How am I supposed to be proud that I still live at home, I haven't been laid...ever, and the best thing going for me is some people respect be because of my moderately low slashdot uid?
Why not just chip the kid, then you know where the kid is and can eliminate the expensive traffic system that will only be effective 1% of the time.
I think chipping kids until 18 is a good idea. After that, leave the decision up to them to get it out.
This way, they can't use the "zomgthingkofthechildren" excuse.
When you have an oppressive government, every citizen is a potential terrorist.
I can only explain it as such: The government expects some massive revolt soon, and it needs to be able to target any organizing into a power structure. Being that roads will be used to get to targets, they need to identify the people they need to watch and see them coming.
As for why, I have to say it is economic collapse. There is no way we can continue to bail out these banks, have "world police actions", and fund national health care. In true political fashion they will deny it to the last, then spin it. Then when we actually have to know the truth, the ruling party (the rich) will have already adjusted leaving the rest of us with no recourse but to get their heads on a stick... If there is any accountability at all.
I cannot see any good times ahead for the US. The people I work with and I agree this is the beginning of the decline of the US to a living standard more on par with the rest of the world. But hey, at least we'll have universal health care and/or cheap oil.
This is nothing. All those tire pressure sensors that are now required all have unique IDs and can be read from feet away, so now you can identify every car passing by.
The dragon cannot appreciate the tiger's position because he is not a tiger. The tiger is in the same situation. This extends not just to professional skills, but to a personal level as well. As one of the few geeks trying to run a small business, I can definitely seen how I've caused some pain to the owners before.
I suggest being a business owner to find out jsut how different it is.
1. Social skills matter.
2. Your product is the best, you have to believe that so your customers do too.
3. You have to worry about costs. Make payroll or get that new gigabit router...?
4. Unless you work for a software company, your IT systems are a cost center, not revenue producing. You need to focus on increasing revenue and limit costs.
5. IT exists to serve the company, the company is a document, a legal fiction to make money for the owners in some business.
From the other side:
1. Business people want to get their money's worth out of you.
2. You are smarter than they are; but they make more money than you do. (See, smarts != compensation. You can be an idiot, but if you can sell, you get 10% or more just by connecting people)
3. Business people are creative in inexactitudes. You're not. You're technical on specifics.
4. You see limitations and flaws in your own product.
5. Business is trying to make money, you're just trying to make your job easier.
Hopefully that will help you see the other side. The other thing you can do is visit your company's customers. See what is important to them about your company. It won't be you. Now realize that your business people care more about the customer than you. Now see your real part in the business.
What you really have is an opportunity.
Be the person who bridges the two. You have an opportunity, and the business people, if you can work with them, should reward you and advance you as a natural consequence of appreciating their position.
They can because of current technical limitations. And I don't feel bad about it.
The problem is only voice packages get compared. Texts are in the periphery.
To fix this, I propose the following solution: we treat phones as a-la-carte services. That means your voice provider can be ATT, your data provider can be Verizon and your text provider T-Mobile.
This strategy would then provide the required market forces for bringing texting costs under control - namely competition.
Let's not forget that 2d performance does not cause thermal loading. It is 3d loading that you pay for and is what creates all the heat. What you need to do is play a 3d game, exit, return repeatedly. This will get the heat expansion and cooling which will eventually cause failure.
If you're in all 3d, all the time, then you still won't subject it to the stresses.
The worst thing you could do is play a game, and shut down the computer immediately. This would result in the most significant wear scenario.
My iphone blanks and when it wake it it prompts for the code. This is on 2.0.1
The term is "promote" as in make better, not "provide for"
The statement is clearly aimed to bias the actions of the federal government towards the promotion if conditions in the country via the enumerated powers granted in the constitution - by making laws, trade, monetary policy, treaties, etc. It does not however confer any authority to tax the rich to feed the poor. No where is this more evident than with the passage of the income tax. The nation was at the time, substantially funded by import tariffs which affected the poor far more than the rich. The income tax was supposed to relieve the import taxes (20% of an item's cost) and place that burden on the rich who merely made money by having money. That is the spirit of the statement.
I have no idea how anyone knowing anything about the constitution, could ever say the founders envisioned a federal government that was to provide for its people. Surely, if this was an aim, they would have said it in more than 4 words... In fact this is our 2nd constitution, with the first having been scrapped due to states having to much power and the federal not enough. What we have is a incremented federal power, while still preserving the sovereignty of the states. Given that you're supposed to be a state citizen first, how could the founders ever intend for the federal to support everyone in a nation?
Well they spin counter-clockwise above the equator and clockwise below the equator.