Certainly the best network will vary depending on location. A buddy of mine works up in Alaska where apparently AT&T is the way to go and Verizon is useless. Here in Oregon at my parents' house and my family's cabin Verizon is the only network that has any signal.
Virgin is great if you spend all of your time in the city. For people like me who need the coverage of the Verizon network PagePlus is a good choice. $30/mo gets me more minutes and texts than I would ever use along with 500MB of 3G data.
You couldn't be more wrong. I went to the store this evening to get a six pack of lager. I went to pay with a few shavings of gold but the cashier informed me that they only accept platinum group elements since apparently it is the one true money. In my state of disappointment I threw my gold in the nearest refuse receptacle and went home where I proceeded to to literally throw all of my silver bullion out the window. This may have been a bad idea because I'm on the 15th floor and this poor chap happened to be walking by and took a good knock to the head. The good news is I learned later that he neither owns property nor pays income taxes so in the end it was actually a net benefit to society. I expect to be issued the key to the city sometime next week if you would like to attend the ceremony. In expressing my slight regret to the widow it came to my attention that their daughter also was not a productive member of society and thus I am in negotiations to purchase her that I might better utilize this human capital. I have not yet decided whether I will keep her as a servant or grind her into a fine slurry with numerous applications, however that decision is on temporarily on hold while I finalize payment. For some reason the widow is demanding that I furnish payment in the form of salt, which poses a problem because the only mines that I own are now exclusively dedicated to platinum group element extraction. (For, as you will recall, the shopkeeper informed me when I went to purchase lager that only platinum group elements are the one true money.) I am hoping we can work something out to where I pay with rice or onions or some other white substance. Having formerly lived in China I have a large stockpile or the former. It has some rat turds mixed in though and so I'm not quite sure how to covert the rice-price to the rat-shit-laden-rice-price. If you could use your vast intellect to help me with this urgent matter I would be most appreciative. Thank you so much. May all of your days be filled with newborn babies drowning in vats of sulfuric acid.
In this day and age just try to find a successful website that doesn't make liberal use of landmine technology. It can't be done. Anyone who believes otherwise should be converted to biodiesel.
So if you cost $100 and generate $120 value, but the other guy in India cost $20 and generated only $25, well, the company can hire 5 India guy to generate $125 for the same cost of $100, so bye bye to your job.
- I don't see what the problem is, that's exactly what should happen!
Every cent counts, every dollar that can be made by reducing cost of production and increasing efficiency should be made! Where is the problem that you are complaining about?
If your problem is that you are uncompetitive at your taxation levels and your inflation levels with people in India, then your problem is not with the IBM, it is with your government.
That same Indian person is probably worth at least $50 if ground into a fine slurry to be used as a livestock feed and industrial lubricant. Having them continue to perform a job when they're worth more as raw materials is fantastically wasteful.
Also, if you have to wait any length of time before you can afford a ten year mortgage that means you will be paying rent that whole time. If you're paying $1000/mo while saving up to afford that 10 year mortgage, and it takes you ten years to get there, you'll be out $120,000 in rent, completely eliminating anything you might have saved.
I mean, how many US cities can you think of, that already have a viable rail transit system?? NYC? Chicago...SF if you count the cable cars I guess....where else?
Boston, Portland, Houston, Los Angeles, Philly, DC, Atlanta...
If government hadn't created the Internet and instead left it for the free market to develop we wouldn't be in this position, now would we? Therefore any "market failure" concerning the Internet is actually a government failure.
It's worse than that! Article I Section 8 specifically gives congress the authority to "raise and support armies" and "provide and maintain a navy." Nowhere does it say anything about an air force! Therefore, the USAF is unconstitutional. Same with NASA.
Oh, baldercrap. Rock climbing, whitewater kayaking, kiteboarding, snowboarding, mountaineering... They're all more popular than ever. We aren't interested in your motorcycle hobby because it looks really boring in comparison.
I know a lot of baby boomer aged guys who work for my state's Fish and Wildlife division. Younger people don't seem to be getting into hunting and fishing much anymore, and they rightly worry this will make much of their work irrelevant. A lot of them blame video games or iPhones or whatever. Kids, they say, just aren't interested in going outside anymore. IMHO they're completely wrong.
My big weekend activity is whitewater kayaking. I bought my drysuit, boat, paddle, and skirt used. For the life jacket I went new and high end spending $200. All told I'm into the hobby about $600. A day on the river costs me only gas. I have friends who are into rock climbing, kiteboarding, mountaineering, backpacking, snowboarding, mountain biking, et cetera... All great hobbies that you can get into and participate in fully for about a grand or two initial investment and little or no recurring expenses.
Contrast that with flying where you're going to spend $150/hour to rent a plane that you can only fly on sunny days. Or with fishing where a good fishing boat starts at $10k and the vehicle you will need to pull it will cost almost as much.
Also, frankly, some of the newer hobbies are just better than the old ones. Most of the hobbies I mentioned above weren't really accessible 50 years ago. I go fishing with my dad sometimes. It's fine... Relaxing, I guess. I go kayaking and it's fucking amazing . Who wants sit on a boat waiting for a bite when you can get in a kayak and launch yourself off of a waterfall?
Here is one for sale with some interior photos. The plane is pretty much a museum piece. 65HP. VFR only. 13 gallons fuel capacity. No transponder, so stay out of class C airspace. No electrical system from the factory (check out the gel cell sitting on the floor) so you can't even add one. Also, you will have to prop start it. I guess if you just want to occasionally take a friend up to see the local sights it might be okay, but if that's all you're doing why bother owning?
All of those things. Also, there was a huge boom in GA aircraft manufacturing during the mid 2000s when glass cockpits were the hot new thing and everyone thought they were a millionaire because they owned a house. Between the housing crash, fuels costs, and a glut of very nice used planes the only thing surprising about a drop in demand for new aircraft is that anyone would be surprised by it.
Here's a ten year old G1000 equipped Cessna 172 with 210 hours on the engine for $190k. Why on earth would anyone spend $350k on a new one?
San Diego to Vegas is 225 miles each way. In a Cessna 172 with a cruise speed of 130 and an hourly rate of $175 you will spend at least $600 for the trip. If you can afford to do that every month you may be a little better off than "decently middle-class".
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Certainly the best network will vary depending on location. A buddy of mine works up in Alaska where apparently AT&T is the way to go and Verizon is useless. Here in Oregon at my parents' house and my family's cabin Verizon is the only network that has any signal.
Virgin is great if you spend all of your time in the city. For people like me who need the coverage of the Verizon network PagePlus is a good choice. $30/mo gets me more minutes and texts than I would ever use along with 500MB of 3G data.
Where is the precise point in the law? I don't know.
Then maybe you should shut your bitch mouth.
Generally speaking, in the U.S., it is already illegal to publish photographs of people for profit without their permission.
Maybe in Indiana, but generally, no. Here's one recent example.
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A) envoy: embassy
B) martyr: massacre
C) oarsman: regatta
D) referee: tournament
E) horse: stable
You couldn't be more wrong. I went to the store this evening to get a six pack of lager. I went to pay with a few shavings of gold but the cashier informed me that they only accept platinum group elements since apparently it is the one true money. In my state of disappointment I threw my gold in the nearest refuse receptacle and went home where I proceeded to to literally throw all of my silver bullion out the window. This may have been a bad idea because I'm on the 15th floor and this poor chap happened to be walking by and took a good knock to the head. The good news is I learned later that he neither owns property nor pays income taxes so in the end it was actually a net benefit to society. I expect to be issued the key to the city sometime next week if you would like to attend the ceremony. In expressing my slight regret to the widow it came to my attention that their daughter also was not a productive member of society and thus I am in negotiations to purchase her that I might better utilize this human capital. I have not yet decided whether I will keep her as a servant or grind her into a fine slurry with numerous applications, however that decision is on temporarily on hold while I finalize payment. For some reason the widow is demanding that I furnish payment in the form of salt, which poses a problem because the only mines that I own are now exclusively dedicated to platinum group element extraction. (For, as you will recall, the shopkeeper informed me when I went to purchase lager that only platinum group elements are the one true money.) I am hoping we can work something out to where I pay with rice or onions or some other white substance. Having formerly lived in China I have a large stockpile or the former. It has some rat turds mixed in though and so I'm not quite sure how to covert the rice-price to the rat-shit-laden-rice-price. If you could use your vast intellect to help me with this urgent matter I would be most appreciative. Thank you so much. May all of your days be filled with newborn babies drowning in vats of sulfuric acid.
In this day and age just try to find a successful website that doesn't make liberal use of landmine technology. It can't be done. Anyone who believes otherwise should be converted to biodiesel.
Coning is sooo 2011.
So if you cost $100 and generate $120 value, but the other guy in India cost $20 and generated only $25, well, the company can hire 5 India guy to generate $125 for the same cost of $100, so bye bye to your job.
- I don't see what the problem is, that's exactly what should happen!
Every cent counts, every dollar that can be made by reducing cost of production and increasing efficiency should be made! Where is the problem that you are complaining about?
If your problem is that you are uncompetitive at your taxation levels and your inflation levels with people in India, then your problem is not with the IBM, it is with your government.
Stop paying taxes.
That same Indian person is probably worth at least $50 if ground into a fine slurry to be used as a livestock feed and industrial lubricant. Having them continue to perform a job when they're worth more as raw materials is fantastically wasteful.
Also, if you have to wait any length of time before you can afford a ten year mortgage that means you will be paying rent that whole time. If you're paying $1000/mo while saving up to afford that 10 year mortgage, and it takes you ten years to get there, you'll be out $120,000 in rent, completely eliminating anything you might have saved.
If the free market had been allowed to function unimpeded we would now have multiple competing internets to choose from.
If you think prices aren't falling then clearly you haven't been to the store to buy rhodium recently.
If government hadn't created the Internet and instead left it for the free market to develop we wouldn't be in this position, now would we? Therefore any "market failure" concerning the Internet is actually a government failure.
Imagine if the entire industry as a whole was merely breaking even. Apple could claim NaN% of the profit!
Yeah, right. We all know you took those tiny fractions of a cent and transferred them to an account that you opened.
Software development is just about the only industry where perfection is expected.
Software development and astrology...
It's worse than that! Article I Section 8 specifically gives congress the authority to "raise and support armies" and "provide and maintain a navy." Nowhere does it say anything about an air force! Therefore, the USAF is unconstitutional. Same with NASA.
As someone who has been in three major motorcycle collisions, I can say with total certainty that I am not dead yet...
Granted... but there's a bit of a selection bias at work here.
Oh, baldercrap. Rock climbing, whitewater kayaking, kiteboarding, snowboarding, mountaineering... They're all more popular than ever. We aren't interested in your motorcycle hobby because it looks really boring in comparison.
I know a lot of baby boomer aged guys who work for my state's Fish and Wildlife division. Younger people don't seem to be getting into hunting and fishing much anymore, and they rightly worry this will make much of their work irrelevant. A lot of them blame video games or iPhones or whatever. Kids, they say, just aren't interested in going outside anymore. IMHO they're completely wrong.
My big weekend activity is whitewater kayaking. I bought my drysuit, boat, paddle, and skirt used. For the life jacket I went new and high end spending $200. All told I'm into the hobby about $600. A day on the river costs me only gas. I have friends who are into rock climbing, kiteboarding, mountaineering, backpacking, snowboarding, mountain biking, et cetera... All great hobbies that you can get into and participate in fully for about a grand or two initial investment and little or no recurring expenses.
Contrast that with flying where you're going to spend $150/hour to rent a plane that you can only fly on sunny days. Or with fishing where a good fishing boat starts at $10k and the vehicle you will need to pull it will cost almost as much.
Also, frankly, some of the newer hobbies are just better than the old ones. Most of the hobbies I mentioned above weren't really accessible 50 years ago. I go fishing with my dad sometimes. It's fine... Relaxing, I guess. I go kayaking and it's fucking amazing . Who wants sit on a boat waiting for a bite when you can get in a kayak and launch yourself off of a waterfall?
Here is one for sale with some interior photos. The plane is pretty much a museum piece. 65HP. VFR only. 13 gallons fuel capacity. No transponder, so stay out of class C airspace. No electrical system from the factory (check out the gel cell sitting on the floor) so you can't even add one. Also, you will have to prop start it. I guess if you just want to occasionally take a friend up to see the local sights it might be okay, but if that's all you're doing why bother owning?
All of those things. Also, there was a huge boom in GA aircraft manufacturing during the mid 2000s when glass cockpits were the hot new thing and everyone thought they were a millionaire because they owned a house. Between the housing crash, fuels costs, and a glut of very nice used planes the only thing surprising about a drop in demand for new aircraft is that anyone would be surprised by it.
Here's a ten year old G1000 equipped Cessna 172 with 210 hours on the engine for $190k. Why on earth would anyone spend $350k on a new one?
San Diego to Vegas is 225 miles each way. In a Cessna 172 with a cruise speed of 130 and an hourly rate of $175 you will spend at least $600 for the trip. If you can afford to do that every month you may be a little better off than "decently middle-class".
How old are you that you can remember it not being political?