Very few other industries work that way (power generation and distribution are one).
is that why the the amount i pay to have a kWh delivered to my house is almost as much as the amount i pay for the actual power? those 150 kV poles didn't grow by themselves you know:)
Traditionally, Pluto has been a planet not because we think it falls under the definition of planet, but rather that we don't have a proper definition of what a planet is.
Assuming the latter is a meaningful debate, yes, there is a meaningful debate on this topic.
It will be, as soon as the first draft of the Sol tax laws is written. Plutonians will claim to be on an asteroid in an attempt to avoid having to pay taxes and when the smoke clears there'll be nothing left to debate about.
that's not the point. a wireless keyboard means you can move the keyboard around willy nilly without having to worry about that semi-heavy object sitting on the cable. you can toss it aside to give the desk a good cleaning and if you have a certain kind of personality, you can put it in a drawer when the pc isn't in use, so the desk can actually be used for other purposes...i for one greatly enjoy tossing the keyboard aside when watching, say, a series or movie on the pc and use the freed space to place, for example, a pizza.
It is, when everyone plays by the same rules. When they don't, integrity doesn't put food on the table. When making a decision I know could cause trouble in the future if it backfires, my manager gets to make the final call. That's why he makes the big bucks.
Can't they just block everything on their firewalls and add only the hosts or domains the professors formally request to have access allowed? Is it that complicated?
Indeed it is...just imagine an organization with a couple 100 people, each filing requests for sites to be whitelisted. each filing has to be accompanied by a written motivation, which then has to be read and verified by a person. having verified that the site complies with established protocol it can be added to the whitelist. rinse, repeat.
Why call the police and not just go to the tree and tell the kids to please stop?
How about simply putting them in the back of the patrol car and driving them home to mom and dad for a stern talking to? No official charges or anything needed, just the sight of mom and mr officer sitting at the kitchen table talking, occasionally looking your way, is more than enough to scare a 12 yr old to the bone.
Where is the loss? In this scenario, both parties benefit, so money (well, value, but effectively the same thing) has been created, effectively out of thin air.
Sorry, but that's a load of rubbish. If your productivity and hence your income increases, then it does so because more money shifts from your customers towards you in the same timeframe. The money doesn't just pop into existence.
Hmm, it just might, if only for the fact that it'd be based on what is in my opinion still the best RTS ever made. Then again, the Zerg would fit in a fantasy setting as neatly as they do in space. Many Protoss units use hand to hand attacks as well. Even though Starcraft is Sci-Fi, it does have many fantasy aspects in it. Still, whether the game would be as good is highly debatable. Warcraft has a simple world, 1 single planet, something that can be easily envisioned by a human being. What kind of world would one place WoS in? 3 planets, 16 planets, 1 per server? It's the sense of a living environment that creates the atmosphere for a game to make it feel enjoyable in the long run.
It's awfully hard to balance a sim (i.e. tune parameters such that the system doesnt just collapse to a single species OR global extinction) like that, let alone allow for humans to rampage through it.
Start off with a certain equilibrium between the existing races and logical consequences to certain actions by these races that endeavour to maintain said equilibrium. They go about their business, do things, keep the world alive, but left to their own devices no race has enough of an edge to strike a deciding blow.
Now introduce the human factor. Using politics and plain-old fashioned violence it is possible to indeed cause a race to go extinct or allow another to gain total dominance. Whether this would be very interesting in a typical fantasy MMO I'm not sure but in an open-ended space game in the best tradition of Elite it'd be totally awesome. Imagine a game like Freelancer where one's actions in the universe actually influence the economy of certain companies, where factions manage to overthrow the existing government etc. etc. Writing large-scale economic-political systems is very complicated, but the basics are relatively simple. The result would be a huge dynamic world where what you as a player does actually has consequences. I'd happily shell out 100$ for a good spacegame that managed to achieve this.
this very principle is currently being put to use in a part of the Netherlands that used to be mined for coal. The water in the now abandonded mine-shafts will be used to provide heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.
consumer friendliness = socialist = communist = t3h ev0l. This mystical being called the "free market" will sort it all out in the long run though, so you just need to have faith.
hah, i love customers like you. unless i'm talking out of my ass my supervisor will tell you the exact same thing and therefore there is no point whatsoever of speaking to him...so it looks like there's a little impasse going on, the difference being i'm getting while waiting for someone like you to get the message.
as any Democrat who assumes the office would presumably want to push their own agenda and not get muddled down in such a big and ultimately pointless fight.
big? definitely. pointless? dunno, what about all this truth and justice stuff...
Wow, I think you should have a look at the rest of the world and realize that we don't "import" laws from the US. Most of Europe and Canada are Socialist countries... you don't see us adapting US education and healthcare do you?
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner is currently reviewing cross-border data flow because Canadians' privacy is being compromised by the Patriot Act. If anything, we're seperating ourselves from the US, not the other way around.
Not to mention a growing sentiment among western europeans that doesn't quite get to "death to america", but we're already well into the "fuck the americans" range. Sorry, but G.W. is a PR nightmare and a hell of a lot of credit has gone to waste during these past 2 terms. As far as a lot of people are concerned, americans are fat/stupid/selfish/self-centered/all of the above/cowboy neal. The bubble has burst, the shining beacon of freedom turns out to be a candle that's nearly burnt out and everytime we see what you guys consider to be right wing voters on tv we completely laugh our asses off.
With no idea about what this guy is actually doing, I can tell you that the house I live in right now uses about 1000 kWh/month during summer and up to 1500 kWh/month during winter. What the heck are we (it's 7 people by the way) using so it's that much ? Let's see...
Well, I'm not the GP but I work at a power company so i deal with electricity usage numbers every day. The average Dutch household consumes about 3000 kWh per year. Then again, we use gas for heating, which is a great deal more efficient in terms of Joules/buck(a cubic meter of gas, while costing about 3 times as much as a kWh, contains 10 times the energy), so perhaps that makes a difference. Might be it's the cost of slightly over.25 euros/kWh that helps though...
in this case, he paid the price for breaking those rules. what he *should* have done was spend weeks sitting back with his feet on the table and everytime whoever could be considered his "boss" asked why he'd be able to give the same answer. don't go out and fight the rules yourself, you'll only make yourself a target, instead give your boss the choice between doing it for you or watching you sit on your ass all day.
I like the idea of a living will, but I'm not sure about its legal status here in the UK, let alone anywhere else. If I make a living will, would a doctor be obliged or even allowed to follow it? My option would be that if I'm going to have a significantly reduced quality of life (almost certain after a head injury like that), pull whatever plug you need to and use any part of my body that can be of help to someone, but I'm not sure that doctors and the law here would see that as anything other than euthenasia, which is currently illegal. Do any lawyers here know the situation any better than this?
To my knowledge, doctors pretty much everywhere are bound to abide by the patient's wishes unless said patient is demonstrably mentally unstable to the point where he or she can no longer make proper decisions regarding his or her medical treatment. Ultimately it is your own body.
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Very few other industries work that way (power generation and distribution are one).
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is that why the the amount i pay to have a kWh delivered to my house is almost as much as the amount i pay for the actual power? those 150 kV poles didn't grow by themselves you know
perhaps a little badge to be sown onto their clothing would be more practical...starting to sounds familiar already?
Traditionally, Pluto has been a planet not because we think it falls under the definition of planet, but rather that we don't have a proper definition of what a planet is.
Assuming the latter is a meaningful debate, yes, there is a meaningful debate on this topic.
It will be, as soon as the first draft of the Sol tax laws is written. Plutonians will claim to be on an asteroid in an attempt to avoid having to pay taxes and when the smoke clears there'll be nothing left to debate about.
that's not the point. a wireless keyboard means you can move the keyboard around willy nilly without having to worry about that semi-heavy object sitting on the cable. you can toss it aside to give the desk a good cleaning and if you have a certain kind of personality, you can put it in a drawer when the pc isn't in use, so the desk can actually be used for other purposes...i for one greatly enjoy tossing the keyboard aside when watching, say, a series or movie on the pc and use the freed space to place, for example, a pizza.
That's called integrity.
It is, when everyone plays by the same rules. When they don't, integrity doesn't put food on the table. When making a decision I know could cause trouble in the future if it backfires, my manager gets to make the final call. That's why he makes the big bucks.
Can't they just block everything on their firewalls and add only the hosts or domains the professors formally request to have access allowed? Is it that complicated?
Indeed it is...just imagine an organization with a couple 100 people, each filing requests for sites to be whitelisted. each filing has to be accompanied by a written motivation, which then has to be read and verified by a person. having verified that the site complies with established protocol it can be added to the whitelist. rinse, repeat.
Why call the police and not just go to the tree and tell the kids to please stop?
How about simply putting them in the back of the patrol car and driving them home to mom and dad for a stern talking to? No official charges or anything needed, just the sight of mom and mr officer sitting at the kitchen table talking, occasionally looking your way, is more than enough to scare a 12 yr old to the bone.
'bout time we got our Compound 17/18!
Where is the loss? In this scenario, both parties benefit, so money (well, value, but effectively the same thing) has been created, effectively out of thin air.
Sorry, but that's a load of rubbish. If your productivity and hence your income increases, then it does so because more money shifts from your customers towards you in the same timeframe. The money doesn't just pop into existence.
Hmm, it just might, if only for the fact that it'd be based on what is in my opinion still the best RTS ever made. Then again, the Zerg would fit in a fantasy setting as neatly as they do in space. Many Protoss units use hand to hand attacks as well. Even though Starcraft is Sci-Fi, it does have many fantasy aspects in it. Still, whether the game would be as good is highly debatable. Warcraft has a simple world, 1 single planet, something that can be easily envisioned by a human being. What kind of world would one place WoS in? 3 planets, 16 planets, 1 per server? It's the sense of a living environment that creates the atmosphere for a game to make it feel enjoyable in the long run.
whatever...
It's awfully hard to balance a sim (i.e. tune parameters such that the system doesnt just collapse to a single species OR global extinction) like that, let alone allow for humans to rampage through it.
Start off with a certain equilibrium between the existing races and logical consequences to certain actions by these races that endeavour to maintain said equilibrium. They go about their business, do things, keep the world alive, but left to their own devices no race has enough of an edge to strike a deciding blow.
Now introduce the human factor. Using politics and plain-old fashioned violence it is possible to indeed cause a race to go extinct or allow another to gain total dominance. Whether this would be very interesting in a typical fantasy MMO I'm not sure but in an open-ended space game in the best tradition of Elite it'd be totally awesome. Imagine a game like Freelancer where one's actions in the universe actually influence the economy of certain companies, where factions manage to overthrow the existing government etc. etc. Writing large-scale economic-political systems is very complicated, but the basics are relatively simple. The result would be a huge dynamic world where what you as a player does actually has consequences. I'd happily shell out 100$ for a good spacegame that managed to achieve this.
this very principle is currently being put to use in a part of the Netherlands that used to be mined for coal. The water in the now abandonded mine-shafts will be used to provide heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.
consumer friendliness = socialist = communist = t3h ev0l. This mystical being called the "free market" will sort it all out in the long run though, so you just need to have faith.
hah, i love customers like you. unless i'm talking out of my ass my supervisor will tell you the exact same thing and therefore there is no point whatsoever of speaking to him...so it looks like there's a little impasse going on, the difference being i'm getting while waiting for someone like you to get the message.
as any Democrat who assumes the office would presumably want to push their own agenda and not get muddled down in such a big and ultimately pointless fight.
big? definitely. pointless? dunno, what about all this truth and justice stuff...
Well, quantum theory says that there is in fact a smallest possible period of time, called Planck time.
I assume that would be the limit. Not even the practical limit, but The Limit.
Indeed, and as soon as a suitable thunderstorm comes past and Igor raises the lightning rod, we shall be able to measure it.
Wow, I think you should have a look at the rest of the world and realize that we don't "import" laws from the US. Most of Europe and Canada are Socialist countries... you don't see us adapting US education and healthcare do you?
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner is currently reviewing cross-border data flow because Canadians' privacy is being compromised by the Patriot Act. If anything, we're seperating ourselves from the US, not the other way around.
Not to mention a growing sentiment among western europeans that doesn't quite get to "death to america", but we're already well into the "fuck the americans" range. Sorry, but G.W. is a PR nightmare and a hell of a lot of credit has gone to waste during these past 2 terms. As far as a lot of people are concerned, americans are fat/stupid/selfish/self-centered/all of the above/cowboy neal. The bubble has burst, the shining beacon of freedom turns out to be a candle that's nearly burnt out and everytime we see what you guys consider to be right wing voters on tv we completely laugh our asses off.
that's a byproduct of the process anyway. What remains of the manure once the methane has been extracted makes for excellen fertilizer.
With no idea about what this guy is actually doing, I can tell you that the house I live in right now uses about 1000 kWh/month during summer and up to 1500 kWh/month during winter. What the heck are we (it's 7 people by the way) using so it's that much ? Let's see...
.25 euros/kWh that helps though...
Well, I'm not the GP but I work at a power company so i deal with electricity usage numbers every day. The average Dutch household consumes about 3000 kWh per year. Then again, we use gas for heating, which is a great deal more efficient in terms of Joules/buck(a cubic meter of gas, while costing about 3 times as much as a kWh, contains 10 times the energy), so perhaps that makes a difference. Might be it's the cost of slightly over
I can't do that anyway, I work for the power company...
If you can't afford to do something right, don't do it.
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hope you're happy with the way your life is going
in this case, he paid the price for breaking those rules. what he *should* have done was spend weeks sitting back with his feet on the table and everytime whoever could be considered his "boss" asked why he'd be able to give the same answer. don't go out and fight the rules yourself, you'll only make yourself a target, instead give your boss the choice between doing it for you or watching you sit on your ass all day.
indeed. sometimes the best way to demonstrate the stupidity of certain rules of procedures is to follow them, to the letter, consistently.
I like the idea of a living will, but I'm not sure about its legal status here in the UK, let alone anywhere else. If I make a living will, would a doctor be obliged or even allowed to follow it? My option would be that if I'm going to have a significantly reduced quality of life (almost certain after a head injury like that), pull whatever plug you need to and use any part of my body that can be of help to someone, but I'm not sure that doctors and the law here would see that as anything other than euthenasia, which is currently illegal. Do any lawyers here know the situation any better than this?
To my knowledge, doctors pretty much everywhere are bound to abide by the patient's wishes unless said patient is demonstrably mentally unstable to the point where he or she can no longer make proper decisions regarding his or her medical treatment. Ultimately it is your own body.