Actually, Profit = Price Charged - Cost of Doing Business - Wholesale Price of Good (or Total Cost of Labor for Services Rendered), but who's counting?:)
Working in the telecom industry, I can tell you this:
For the Federal Universal Service Fund fee (socialist policy that pays for welfare moms to have phone lines), the goverment says "You need to pay xx% to us for FUSF, but you can collect it any way you want, you don't have to itemize it" and many companies don't. Some companies incorporate part of it into what you're already paying. My company fully itemizes it. So judging by the fact that there's three different basic approaches to collecting for this tax, you can see why there's at least three different amounts you could pay. I should also add that the percent the government wants changes MONTHLY.
Well, someone was held liable for mental damages when a thief got locked in their garage for a few days with nothing but dog food to eat. So this doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to me.
If they want to be a "glad-handing salesman" as you put it, they should have the opportunity to become one. If books and bulid a trebuchet more interesting and intellectually stimulating to a child, then presenting one with the choice of aforementioned activities and reality-drivel TV, then they will pick the former every time. All I'm saying is that they should be exposed to everything, it's up to the parent to put everything into perspective and ensure moderation of any activity. Ever seen the movie Dead Poets Society?:)
I think you are a bit restrictive on the television programming and video games...the smartest person in the world won't be able to do much for society if they are unable to communicate with the common people, and when these children go off on their own and are amazed by gameboys and give co-workers a queer eye every time they ask them about the big game or the TV show or whatever, they're going to become irrelevant outcasts. The point is moderation...an hour of TV or "gameboy" (not sure I understand your distinction between computer games and gameboy) a day is plenty. What's more, TV has some very thought-provoking and educational programs on networks like the History Channel, National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, etc. On networks like these, you get to see video of subject and events that you could only see in pictures or described in words before. You get to hear commentary by some of the world's best in a field.
You don't mention sports, but I think a sport and/or some "gameboy time" is necessary, because otherwise you grow up like my wife and her sister (who lived a similarly restrictive childhood) and have such terrible hand-eye coordination that they are embarrased to particpate in any type of group athletic activity or multi-player game...and some of the smartest people I know are avid video-gamers (mostly the ones who play strategic-type games). The same goes for "non-public radio", I hope you're not stuffy enough to suggest that rock music is only for dolts.
The bottom line is, children should be exposed to all facets of culture, not just the ones their parents find intellectually stimulating.
I challenge you to prove that claim...I know you said "probably", but the stark truth is that most big university sports programs (your Big 10's, etc.) are in the red, DESPITE the millions given to the program. Of course, it makes sense, when the football coach makes more than any professor and the new stadium costs more than any research laboratory and replaces a stadium that was newer than the current research laboratory.
The problem was, for the first few months, Fedora Core 1 was a piece of crap. Now that it's matured a bit...it's still not as good as SuSE or Mandrake, but I don't feel Red Hat ever was once those two distros got off the ground, at least on the desktop. The up2date utility STILL takes a dump if you try to install more than one update at a time, so you have to use another app to stay up to date; most use yum from the command line, and it's not too bad, though I prefer URPMI or portage.
Hearing rumors of developer strife Re: FC2, I'm not confident for the future of that distro...I think Mandrake's similar yet different release scheme is a lot better (mostly because they've always been community-oriented, not changing horses midstream like RH), and SuSE is an all commercial outfit. I don't see a place for Fedora Core as a free distro either, with Gentoo, Debian (and derivatives), Slackware, and Mandrake all being much more established (and better in their niches).
Fedora just seems like the bastard child of Red Hat, only kept around so that they can say "hey, we like free software too!" But I think the quality, at least thusfar, diminishes my confidence toward their commercial offering, especially considering that I've only really liked one RH version ever (8).
The Daily Show is great if you look at it as a comedy, rather than as a good news source. Even as the latter, it's better than anything on Fox News because on the latter, the guests usually can't get a word in edgewise.
It was Mortal Kombat the original, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (you may have heard of him) was the one that had a cow over this game and Night Trap in particular.
As bad as the mainstream choices are in 2004, 2000 was worse...on one ticket, you had GWB. On the other, you had soulless Al Gore for president (eh), Joseph Lieberman for VP (wants to censor video games) and Tipper Gore as the first lady (wants to censor music). This time, Kerry's ticket (assuming he doesn't pick Lieberman, or Al/Tipper Gore as his running mate) is marginally better and GWB is a known quantity, quantifibly bad, so I know what my choice will be.
I agree with that analysis. Also, speaking as a casual Linux user who isn't entirely comfortable with the command line, learning enough Vi to edit a few lines of yum.conf or grub.conf or the xfree86 config file wasn't that bad. You learn how to switch into edit mode, edit stuff, learn how to switch back to command mode, learn how to save stuff, or to exit without save. I used to use Nano until I started playing with distros that don't have it by default (read: most). Now, I'm glad that I know enough Vi to get basic stuff done and I have Linux in a Nutshell and various online resources if I ever need more than the bare minimum knowledge.
To be fair, I'm not sure that they mean "discussing with each other". Certainly, the article writer didn't intend to convey that, because you would be correct and that would put them in hot water.
More realistically, I think, based on the context of the article, they're internally discussing this, it's just that all 5 major labels happen to be doing it simultaneously.
Well back in the day when I had a roommate that wasn't my wife, it was because he would rent DVD's from Netflix and copy them to VHS since DVD-R was either too expensive or not available, I can't remember which.
Now with cheap DVD burners and $30 players, there's really no reason.
It should be noted that foreign versions of the Simpsons don't have subtitles, they have different voice actors speaking the native languagues. At least, German is one of them like this, I watched the German Simpsons while I was over there, just wasn't the same.
Well I was blatantly counting cards the last day. One bet would be 4 units, the next 1, the next 4 again, and I won so much money. Maybe they ignored me because I was small potatoes (largest bet was $45 and that was the very last one).
I played about a total of 24 hours, so that's a lot of blackjack!
Point is, you have an exactly 50% chance of winning the change machine. You can have over 50% winning blackjack if you know what you're doing. Blackjack is therefore better!
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Actually, Profit = Price Charged - Cost of Doing Business - Wholesale Price of Good (or Total Cost of Labor for Services Rendered), but who's counting? :)
$95 for 150 minutes is a pretty horrible rate.
Working in the telecom industry, I can tell you this:
For the Federal Universal Service Fund fee (socialist policy that pays for welfare moms to have phone lines), the goverment says "You need to pay xx% to us for FUSF, but you can collect it any way you want, you don't have to itemize it" and many companies don't. Some companies incorporate part of it into what you're already paying. My company fully itemizes it. So judging by the fact that there's three different basic approaches to collecting for this tax, you can see why there's at least three different amounts you could pay. I should also add that the percent the government wants changes MONTHLY.
Chris
Well, someone was held liable for mental damages when a thief got locked in their garage for a few days with nothing but dog food to eat. So this doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to me.
Chris
If they want to be a "glad-handing salesman" as you put it, they should have the opportunity to become one. If books and bulid a trebuchet more interesting and intellectually stimulating to a child, then presenting one with the choice of aforementioned activities and reality-drivel TV, then they will pick the former every time. All I'm saying is that they should be exposed to everything, it's up to the parent to put everything into perspective and ensure moderation of any activity. Ever seen the movie Dead Poets Society? :)
I think you are a bit restrictive on the television programming and video games...the smartest person in the world won't be able to do much for society if they are unable to communicate with the common people, and when these children go off on their own and are amazed by gameboys and give co-workers a queer eye every time they ask them about the big game or the TV show or whatever, they're going to become irrelevant outcasts. The point is moderation...an hour of TV or "gameboy" (not sure I understand your distinction between computer games and gameboy) a day is plenty. What's more, TV has some very thought-provoking and educational programs on networks like the History Channel, National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, etc. On networks like these, you get to see video of subject and events that you could only see in pictures or described in words before. You get to hear commentary by some of the world's best in a field.
You don't mention sports, but I think a sport and/or some "gameboy time" is necessary, because otherwise you grow up like my wife and her sister (who lived a similarly restrictive childhood) and have such terrible hand-eye coordination that they are embarrased to particpate in any type of group athletic activity or multi-player game...and some of the smartest people I know are avid video-gamers (mostly the ones who play strategic-type games). The same goes for "non-public radio", I hope you're not stuffy enough to suggest that rock music is only for dolts.
The bottom line is, children should be exposed to all facets of culture, not just the ones their parents find intellectually stimulating.
Chris
I challenge you to prove that claim...I know you said "probably", but the stark truth is that most big university sports programs (your Big 10's, etc.) are in the red, DESPITE the millions given to the program. Of course, it makes sense, when the football coach makes more than any professor and the new stadium costs more than any research laboratory and replaces a stadium that was newer than the current research laboratory.
Chris
I think it comes from the fact that your post seems to be jokingly equating JDS with RH9, a common misconception - JDS is based off of SuSE.
;)
Otherwise, the post was pretty pointless
Chris
The problem was, for the first few months, Fedora Core 1 was a piece of crap. Now that it's matured a bit...it's still not as good as SuSE or Mandrake, but I don't feel Red Hat ever was once those two distros got off the ground, at least on the desktop. The up2date utility STILL takes a dump if you try to install more than one update at a time, so you have to use another app to stay up to date; most use yum from the command line, and it's not too bad, though I prefer URPMI or portage.
Hearing rumors of developer strife Re: FC2, I'm not confident for the future of that distro...I think Mandrake's similar yet different release scheme is a lot better (mostly because they've always been community-oriented, not changing horses midstream like RH), and SuSE is an all commercial outfit. I don't see a place for Fedora Core as a free distro either, with Gentoo, Debian (and derivatives), Slackware, and Mandrake all being much more established (and better in their niches).
Fedora just seems like the bastard child of Red Hat, only kept around so that they can say "hey, we like free software too!" But I think the quality, at least thusfar, diminishes my confidence toward their commercial offering, especially considering that I've only really liked one RH version ever (8).
Chris
The Daily Show is great if you look at it as a comedy, rather than as a good news source. Even as the latter, it's better than anything on Fox News because on the latter, the guests usually can't get a word in edgewise.
Chris
It was Mortal Kombat the original, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (you may have heard of him) was the one that had a cow over this game and Night Trap in particular.
As bad as the mainstream choices are in 2004, 2000 was worse...on one ticket, you had GWB. On the other, you had soulless Al Gore for president (eh), Joseph Lieberman for VP (wants to censor video games) and Tipper Gore as the first lady (wants to censor music). This time, Kerry's ticket (assuming he doesn't pick Lieberman, or Al/Tipper Gore as his running mate) is marginally better and GWB is a known quantity, quantifibly bad, so I know what my choice will be.
Once again, [/end rant]
You forget the most important law about governance:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Chris
Gentoo already does this.
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:)
See http://store.gentoo.org/product_info.php?products
I should add that you can get all those versions for free off the FTP, but the FTP doesn't offer nice fluffy marketing-speak like that does
Chris
I agree with that analysis. Also, speaking as a casual Linux user who isn't entirely comfortable with the command line, learning enough Vi to edit a few lines of yum.conf or grub.conf or the xfree86 config file wasn't that bad. You learn how to switch into edit mode, edit stuff, learn how to switch back to command mode, learn how to save stuff, or to exit without save. I used to use Nano until I started playing with distros that don't have it by default (read: most). Now, I'm glad that I know enough Vi to get basic stuff done and I have Linux in a Nutshell and various online resources if I ever need more than the bare minimum knowledge.
Chris
No way. Jeb will be president from 2008 - 2016. Jenna Bush will be prez from 2016 - 2024. Get it straight!
Chris
Yeah, that's why Jeff Foxworthy isn't popular at all....NOT.
Chris
To be fair, I'm not sure that they mean "discussing with each other". Certainly, the article writer didn't intend to convey that, because you would be correct and that would put them in hot water.
More realistically, I think, based on the context of the article, they're internally discussing this, it's just that all 5 major labels happen to be doing it simultaneously.
Of course, I'm sure there's secret collusion.
Chris
Is that what they're calling it these days?
Chris
Or Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (for the falling effects).
Chris
Well back in the day when I had a roommate that wasn't my wife, it was because he would rent DVD's from Netflix and copy them to VHS since DVD-R was either too expensive or not available, I can't remember which.
Now with cheap DVD burners and $30 players, there's really no reason.
Chris
It should be noted that foreign versions of the Simpsons don't have subtitles, they have different voice actors speaking the native languagues. At least, German is one of them like this, I watched the German Simpsons while I was over there, just wasn't the same.
Chris
Oh. My. GOD.
That's awesome!
Chris
If that's the case, hopefully the Metallica song off "Ride the Lightning" will be the theme. That would be awesome!
Chris
Well I was blatantly counting cards the last day. One bet would be 4 units, the next 1, the next 4 again, and I won so much money. Maybe they ignored me because I was small potatoes (largest bet was $45 and that was the very last one).
Chris
I played about a total of 24 hours, so that's a lot of blackjack!
Point is, you have an exactly 50% chance of winning the change machine. You can have over 50% winning blackjack if you know what you're doing. Blackjack is therefore better!
Chris