I can't speak for you, but in my case it's because the selection in my local library system sucks. They continually overspend building fancy new buildings with statues and whatnot, but can't seem to find any money for a wide variety of books to put in them. And let's not even mention the selection of audiobooks.
When summer starts here in the South, my electric bill goes from ~$50 per month to ~$150 per month. And I already live in a new, relatively small, well insulated house surrounded by lots of shade trees. There's only so much you can do when it's 100 degrees outside.
I've been thinking recently that someone ought to write a book called "The Selfish Bastard's Guide to Saving the Environment." In the abstract, conservation just isn't something I care about - but I do care about saving money, resources, and effort. In practice, I find myself mostly doing what environmentalists want me to, even though I don't care about their cause. After all, the cost of an item is a (rough) proxy for the amount resources going into its production and maintenance.
I didn't decide to own a smallish, well insulated but bland looking house because I wanted to make Al Gore happy, but because I really liked not spending $100,000 extra on a "nicer," bigger, more resource intensive house in the same neighborhood. I didn't decide to use LED light bulbs to save the whales, I did it because I'm lazy and I hate climbing on a ladder to change the lights every 3-6 months.
He was talking about an M1 Abrams tank. I have an exceptionally hard time believing that a Tesla is going to do better than a military tank when it comes to running into metal poles.
It helps to figure out if a poster is being facetious before you whip out a self-righteous reply.
In an article about a breakthrough in molecular topology, I'm currently seeing, while browsing at 2,
-7 comments about the relative merits of the soccer balls that inspired this discovery, -6 comments condemning sports fans in general and soccer ball buyers in particular, -4 comments whining about the fact that the U.S. doesn't have the same regional dialect as the commenter, -1 terrible almost-pun, -1 comment that is completely incoherent and incomprehensible, -1 complaint about religion,
and a grand total of 1 comment about molecular topology. Is is too much to ask that we could have some comments from posters who are interested in, you know, math and science? Here I was getting ready to dredge up all that symmetry and topology that got drilled in to me in grad school. Oh well.
No, I don't. I get the impression that these documents were freely available, unclassified, public information. Or was DHS really trying to keep the location of that big-ass power substation down the street from me a secret?
If you read up on the IeSF, it becomes much more clear what is going on.
-The IeSF is a South Korean organization; it is not Finnish. Ok, technically, it has a number of "member nations," but it is dominated by South Koreans. This tournament in Finland was a local qualifier for a larger international tournament. The local (Finnish) tournament organizers protested against the male-only rule, but couldn't convince the IeSF to relent until the media backlash started.
-The people who run the the IeSF aren't young male hormonal gamers. They are, by and large, middle-aged male executives at media and marketing companies. Their ultimate goal is to become the equivalent of the International Olympic Committee of e-sports, so that their companies can commercialize e-sports in the same way the Olympics were commercialized. However, they haven't been all that successful yet - they don't control any big-name tournaments in any of the games that I follow.
-As I mentioned already, the guys making the rules are older Koreans. I'll quote an interesting anecdote I saw on Ars Technica's comments:
Koreans can be remarkably thoughtlessly sexist (and racist, etc) without thinking about the broader implications. This is highly visible every time you park a car in a modern shopping center - there are reserved spots for women. The parking lanes (marked in pink) are wider and closer to the entrances. These aren't parking spots for expectant mothers or women with small children. These are parking spots for all women, with forethought that they're doing women a favor because they can't park cars as well as men. Westerners see this kind of thing and are instantly offended by the blatant sexism. A Korean will be confused as to why you don't see that women are obviously better off this way.
How has it not been enforced? That quote is about limitations on individual state governments, as it comes from Article I, section 10. It says absolutely nothing about the Federal government, which is perfectly entitled to make paper dollars into legal tender.
Actually, many companies do issue shares of stock. It's common at many companies to match 401(k) contributions with company stock. If I put in 5% of my salary to my 401(k), and the company matches it with stock, then the company is effectively paying 4.762% of my salary in directly issued stock. Then there's all sorts of other wacky stock-based compensation programs like ESPPs, non-qualified options, restricted stock grants, etc.
And there are some companies that still issue actual shares instead of incentive options, even to executives. I may be wrong, but I have heard that it's fairly common in the utility industry to do restricted stock grants instead of options, because options encourage a level of risk taking that utilities can't handle.
I was not aware that my privacy concerns about Street View or any other Google projects had "melted away." If anything, my concerns have only intensified.
As a non-UK citizen, all I ever hear about anyone watching in the UK is Hollyoaks, Eastenders, Doctor Who, Top Gear, Midsomer Murders, and Sherlock. I'll grant you Doctor Who is pretty good, but the rest just seems to be roughly the same mix of shows the U.S. has.
Of course, if this is just a problem with my perceptions, I'd be happy to have someone from the UK correct me.
He almost certainly means that from a strictly legal standpoint, rather than as a general statement. It's somewhat common for the Supreme Court to put a disclaimer in an opinion stating that the opinion was so narrowly focused that it shouldn't be used as a precedent in other seemingly analogous cases. Presumably, this comment is more of a command to the lower courts, rather than a prediction of the future.
So, if Company X wants to start a business that is similar to, but not exactly the same as, Aereo's business, any legal challenge against Company X would still have to be upheld on its own merit. Challengers couldn't cite this Aereo decision as legally relevant.
Now, whether this ruling will have chilling effects, other than its legal precedent, is a different question.
Secular as in "generational" or "over long periods of time." It's a perfectly valid use of that word, if a bit uncommon. In fact, that meaning of secular is much, much older than the (non)religious meaning you're thinking of.
In English, it means "from age to age" or "generational." This meaning is actually older than the meaning you're probably thinking of.
It ultimately comes from the Etruscan word saeculum, via Latin. In Etruscan & Latin, it meant the amount of time needed for a complete renewal of the human population, and if I'm remembering correctly, it was eventually standardized at 110 years.
I believe that all Romance languages use some variant on seculo as their word for century.
It's a common misconception to think so, but a flat income tax would either 1) not tax dividends and capital gains at all, or 2) would not tax business income at the corporate level. If both were taxed, then the tax rate on corporate income would be doubled (actually not quite doubled, it would be 2*tax_rate - tax_rate^2) when all other sources of income were taxed only once.
In fact, that's basically what happens now in the U.S.; we tax business income at 35% but capital gains and dividends have a very low tax rate (15% iirc) with many exemptions - you don't have to pay if you buy through an IRA, if you make less than ~$70,000 per year, if you run a retirement fund, etc.
You may be thinking of Florida State University. They have a well developed relationship with the Seminole tribe. I believe that members of the tribe actually perform at FSU football and baseball games, and the university gives some money to the tribe and its charities as a goodwill gesture. I don't remember other details off the top of my head.
Indeed, I moderately dislike Tesla generally and Elon Musk specifically, and I'm neutral on both electric cars and luxury cars. Nevertheless, I'm cheering myself hoarse for Tesla in this fight. I'd cheer equally for just about anyone who would make a similar effort to reduce the amount of sliminess involved in car purchases.
And it's been that way for a while. The Archbishop of Canterbury, more-or-less the leader of the Anglican Communion, announced his enthusiastic acceptance of the basic tenants of the theory of evolution...in 1884.
Well, that's sort of the point. I'd rather see the NHTSA spend its time (and my money) testing, say, the structural integrity of the aluminum in the new Ford F-150. They seem to be surprisingly good at that sort of thing. I'd rather not see them regulating smartphone apps because I think they could be doing something more useful, like regulating cars.
I don't live close to my job and I still drive nowhere near 15,000 miles per year. I would have thought that a 12 mile commute one way was a lot, but that's still only ~6,000 miles per year. Even throwing in a very generous 2,000 miles of weekend driving and a yearly 1,000 mile round trip to the beach, I'm still only at 9,000 miles.
I'd really love to know how many urban or suburban 2-car families actually manage to put in 30,000+ miles a year in driving
Well, since Mary Barra worked in their human resources department at the time, I do find a little hard to believe that she was retroactively responsible for a fault in their engineering department.
Bill Simmons had an article on ESPN.com about that. He describes in great detail, from a large number of NBA sources and his own experience, how Sterling was always a hated asshole that everyone wanted to get rid of, for at least the past 20 years.
I'm not sure why you were modded down - this seems like a reasonable question. Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, Hulu, and other video streaming services already account for half to two thirds of internet traffic in the U.S., and that's only going to grow.
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I can't speak for you, but in my case it's because the selection in my local library system sucks. They continually overspend building fancy new buildings with statues and whatnot, but can't seem to find any money for a wide variety of books to put in them. And let's not even mention the selection of audiobooks.
You might want to ask Susette Kelo that question.
When summer starts here in the South, my electric bill goes from ~$50 per month to ~$150 per month. And I already live in a new, relatively small, well insulated house surrounded by lots of shade trees. There's only so much you can do when it's 100 degrees outside.
I've been thinking recently that someone ought to write a book called "The Selfish Bastard's Guide to Saving the Environment." In the abstract, conservation just isn't something I care about - but I do care about saving money, resources, and effort. In practice, I find myself mostly doing what environmentalists want me to, even though I don't care about their cause. After all, the cost of an item is a (rough) proxy for the amount resources going into its production and maintenance.
I didn't decide to own a smallish, well insulated but bland looking house because I wanted to make Al Gore happy, but because I really liked not spending $100,000 extra on a "nicer," bigger, more resource intensive house in the same neighborhood. I didn't decide to use LED light bulbs to save the whales, I did it because I'm lazy and I hate climbing on a ladder to change the lights every 3-6 months.
He was talking about an M1 Abrams tank. I have an exceptionally hard time believing that a Tesla is going to do better than a military tank when it comes to running into metal poles.
It helps to figure out if a poster is being facetious before you whip out a self-righteous reply.
In an article about a breakthrough in molecular topology, I'm currently seeing, while browsing at 2,
-7 comments about the relative merits of the soccer balls that inspired this discovery,
-6 comments condemning sports fans in general and soccer ball buyers in particular,
-4 comments whining about the fact that the U.S. doesn't have the same regional dialect as the commenter,
-1 terrible almost-pun,
-1 comment that is completely incoherent and incomprehensible,
-1 complaint about religion,
and a grand total of 1 comment about molecular topology. Is is too much to ask that we could have some comments from posters who are interested in, you know, math and science? Here I was getting ready to dredge up all that symmetry and topology that got drilled in to me in grad school. Oh well.
No, I don't. I get the impression that these documents were freely available, unclassified, public information. Or was DHS really trying to keep the location of that big-ass power substation down the street from me a secret?
If you read up on the IeSF, it becomes much more clear what is going on.
-The IeSF is a South Korean organization; it is not Finnish. Ok, technically, it has a number of "member nations," but it is dominated by South Koreans. This tournament in Finland was a local qualifier for a larger international tournament. The local (Finnish) tournament organizers protested against the male-only rule, but couldn't convince the IeSF to relent until the media backlash started.
-The people who run the the IeSF aren't young male hormonal gamers. They are, by and large, middle-aged male executives at media and marketing companies. Their ultimate goal is to become the equivalent of the International Olympic Committee of e-sports, so that their companies can commercialize e-sports in the same way the Olympics were commercialized. However, they haven't been all that successful yet - they don't control any big-name tournaments in any of the games that I follow.
-As I mentioned already, the guys making the rules are older Koreans. I'll quote an interesting anecdote I saw on Ars Technica's comments:
How has it not been enforced? That quote is about limitations on individual state governments, as it comes from Article I, section 10. It says absolutely nothing about the Federal government, which is perfectly entitled to make paper dollars into legal tender.
Actually, many companies do issue shares of stock. It's common at many companies to match 401(k) contributions with company stock. If I put in 5% of my salary to my 401(k), and the company matches it with stock, then the company is effectively paying 4.762% of my salary in directly issued stock. Then there's all sorts of other wacky stock-based compensation programs like ESPPs, non-qualified options, restricted stock grants, etc.
And there are some companies that still issue actual shares instead of incentive options, even to executives. I may be wrong, but I have heard that it's fairly common in the utility industry to do restricted stock grants instead of options, because options encourage a level of risk taking that utilities can't handle.
I was not aware that my privacy concerns about Street View or any other Google projects had "melted away." If anything, my concerns have only intensified.
As a non-UK citizen, all I ever hear about anyone watching in the UK is Hollyoaks, Eastenders, Doctor Who, Top Gear, Midsomer Murders, and Sherlock. I'll grant you Doctor Who is pretty good, but the rest just seems to be roughly the same mix of shows the U.S. has.
Of course, if this is just a problem with my perceptions, I'd be happy to have someone from the UK correct me.
He almost certainly means that from a strictly legal standpoint, rather than as a general statement. It's somewhat common for the Supreme Court to put a disclaimer in an opinion stating that the opinion was so narrowly focused that it shouldn't be used as a precedent in other seemingly analogous cases. Presumably, this comment is more of a command to the lower courts, rather than a prediction of the future.
So, if Company X wants to start a business that is similar to, but not exactly the same as, Aereo's business, any legal challenge against Company X would still have to be upheld on its own merit. Challengers couldn't cite this Aereo decision as legally relevant.
Now, whether this ruling will have chilling effects, other than its legal precedent, is a different question.
Secular as in "generational" or "over long periods of time." It's a perfectly valid use of that word, if a bit uncommon. In fact, that meaning of secular is much, much older than the (non)religious meaning you're thinking of.
In English, it means "from age to age" or "generational." This meaning is actually older than the meaning you're probably thinking of.
It ultimately comes from the Etruscan word saeculum, via Latin. In Etruscan & Latin, it meant the amount of time needed for a complete renewal of the human population, and if I'm remembering correctly, it was eventually standardized at 110 years.
I believe that all Romance languages use some variant on seculo as their word for century.
It's a common misconception to think so, but a flat income tax would either 1) not tax dividends and capital gains at all, or 2) would not tax business income at the corporate level. If both were taxed, then the tax rate on corporate income would be doubled (actually not quite doubled, it would be 2*tax_rate - tax_rate^2) when all other sources of income were taxed only once.
In fact, that's basically what happens now in the U.S.; we tax business income at 35% but capital gains and dividends have a very low tax rate (15% iirc) with many exemptions - you don't have to pay if you buy through an IRA, if you make less than ~$70,000 per year, if you run a retirement fund, etc.
You may be thinking of Florida State University. They have a well developed relationship with the Seminole tribe. I believe that members of the tribe actually perform at FSU football and baseball games, and the university gives some money to the tribe and its charities as a goodwill gesture. I don't remember other details off the top of my head.
Indeed, I moderately dislike Tesla generally and Elon Musk specifically, and I'm neutral on both electric cars and luxury cars. Nevertheless, I'm cheering myself hoarse for Tesla in this fight. I'd cheer equally for just about anyone who would make a similar effort to reduce the amount of sliminess involved in car purchases.
And it's been that way for a while. The Archbishop of Canterbury, more-or-less the leader of the Anglican Communion, announced his enthusiastic acceptance of the basic tenants of the theory of evolution...in 1884.
Well, that's sort of the point. I'd rather see the NHTSA spend its time (and my money) testing, say, the structural integrity of the aluminum in the new Ford F-150. They seem to be surprisingly good at that sort of thing. I'd rather not see them regulating smartphone apps because I think they could be doing something more useful, like regulating cars.
I don't live close to my job and I still drive nowhere near 15,000 miles per year. I would have thought that a 12 mile commute one way was a lot, but that's still only ~6,000 miles per year. Even throwing in a very generous 2,000 miles of weekend driving and a yearly 1,000 mile round trip to the beach, I'm still only at 9,000 miles.
I'd really love to know how many urban or suburban 2-car families actually manage to put in 30,000+ miles a year in driving
Netflix's own website goes out of the way to block the use of unapproved browsers. I found this quite annoying.
Well, since Mary Barra worked in their human resources department at the time, I do find a little hard to believe that she was retroactively responsible for a fault in their engineering department.
Bill Simmons had an article on ESPN.com about that. He describes in great detail, from a large number of NBA sources and his own experience, how Sterling was always a hated asshole that everyone wanted to get rid of, for at least the past 20 years.
I'm not sure why you were modded down - this seems like a reasonable question. Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, Hulu, and other video streaming services already account for half to two thirds of internet traffic in the U.S., and that's only going to grow.