Median annual earnings for wage and salary funeral directors were $49,620 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $37,200 and $65,260. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $28,410 and the top 10 percent earned more than $91,800.
Have fun trying to live on $50K in any major or minor city in the USA, particularly if you want to have a family.
They may be more popular outside the USA, but here in the States, no one is watching and no one cares. This isn't much different than the last Olympics...or the next one, for that matter.
We have a ton of sports - the NFL, the NBA, baseball, NHL - and those are just the big four. The idea of tuning in the Olympics just to watch American basketball players play...well, I can do that every night of the week for months.
Personally, I'd watch if they put fencing, judo, etc. on...but baseball? Yawn...I could watch the best players in the world every night for six months if I cared.
Fahrenheit makes more sense in day to day contexts. 0 is very cold, 100 is very hot (both from a human experience point of view), and you have more precision on the temperatures in between.
Fahrenheit is a superior unit of measure. Each degree corresponds to the difference in temperature a human can sense. Celsius is arbitrary and much less precise.
The metric system got everything right except temperature.
Now in this particular case it's so cold that it doesn't really matter; if I told you it was -184 C, or -300 F it wouldn't really change the fact that you can't conceive of the temperature as anything but "really, really cold".
As the old story goes...a professor was lecturing that the Sun was 10,000,000 degrees. A student asked "Is that Celsius or Kelvin?" and he replied "What does it matter?"
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (an authoritative court
Well thanks, dilute - I always thought the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Circuit Court was just a joke that everyone laughed off. Now I see it's an authoritative court.
This paragraph is 90% incendiary adjectives and biased verbs:
...'antidoping authorities have fostered a sporting culture of suspicion, secrecy and fear' by relying on unscientifically calibrated tests, like the unreliable test for synthetic testosterone that cost Floyd Landis his 2006 Tour de France victory and even if the authorities manage to correct their tests, they can't possibly keep up with the accelerating advances in biology."
Let's see...
"fostered a culture of suspicion, secrecy, and fear" - no facts
"Relying on unscientifically calibrated tests" - no facts and the presumption that these are the only kinds of tests that exist
"even if the authorities manage to correct their tests" - "manage to" implies it's some kind of herculean effort and the authorities are incompetent
"they can't possibly keep up with the accelerating advances in biology" - a double winner! "can't possibly" - um, why? And "accelerating advances" - as opposed to normal advances? And advances are only on the evasion, not the detection side?
This style of writing is amateurish and written to inflame, not discuss. It's what high school students sound like when they are trying to passionately defend or discredit.
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...particularly because they will likely move to another job someday and these libraries will no longer be available.
Right tool for the right job is a better skill to learn.
...the CWA, who provides the labor to install broadband, would never bias a report in favor of sky-is-falling need to urgently spend a lot of money on speeding broadband installations...
I'm greatly impressed with the air and ground integration of the Marines which, from what I've read, is lacking with the Air Force and Army.
Well, yes, if you have a narrowly defined mission, a small force custom built for it consisting only of elite troops, and design your own stuff from start to finish, it's a lot easier to get tight integration with the components. The Marines exist for short duty assault and offensive operations. The army and air force have to handle everything else.
Comparing the two is like saying "boy, those Rangers sure fight better than the National Guard.
"Airwalls" are very common in classified setups. Go figure - the best and brightest still trust physical separation more than promises of unbreakable firewalls.
The backup server not having the correct licenses is one of the biggest risks in a Disaster Recovery.
You mean, "a minor risk." Seriously. Calling your vendor (Symantec, IBM, whoever) and saying "we're doing a DR test and need to get temp licenses" should be part of your testing plan. All of the major backup software vendors are used to this. Of course, you should have your license info kept off-site with the rest of your documentation, etc., but running a full fire drill should include "our licenses are lost/don't work/the guy who knows where they are is dead, let's call Veritas and get a temp license."
I really don't think the fines would keep large corporations in line.
And yet, it does. Of all the Fortune 500 companies in which I've worked, I never saw any piracy. The risk/reward is too out of whack for big companies to consider it. Sure, you get some guy in the PC support department who burns himself a copy of Microsoft Office for home or something - that is unavoidable - but I never saw any piracy in companies.
I get the impression that the submitter has never heard any MC Hawking, Monzy, Beefy, Spam Tech Crew, never visited rhymetorrents, etc...the submitted tune is actually a pretty weak and amateurish example of Nerdcore.
The new prohibition movement has already gotten smoking banned in bars and the "legally drunk" alcohol level has been changed from "actually drunk" to "imperfectly sober". They've done this even though the lower alcohol levels are not associated with a high risk of crashes. They can seize your car and sell it to fund their agencies though.
Don't worry kid, by the time you're 25 you'll be partied out and vote for higher cigarette taxes and tougher drunk driving laws, too.
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Median annual earnings for wage and salary funeral directors were $49,620 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $37,200 and $65,260. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $28,410 and the top 10 percent earned more than $91,800.
Have fun trying to live on $50K in any major or minor city in the USA, particularly if you want to have a family.
Ah, so it's a NetHack/Angband derivative...
A prize of $20,000 wouldn't tempt me to go to Boston.
$200,000...maybe. Depends how long I have to stay.
Uranium also doesn't grow on trees, you know?
Um, no actually you don't have to grow it at all. The Big Bang already did that for us.
Wait for the medal ceremonies for the big team events, and the closing ceremonies, before you start talking about the Olympics in past tense.
And we still don't care.
They may be more popular outside the USA, but here in the States, no one is watching and no one cares. This isn't much different than the last Olympics...or the next one, for that matter.
We have a ton of sports - the NFL, the NBA, baseball, NHL - and those are just the big four. The idea of tuning in the Olympics just to watch American basketball players play...well, I can do that every night of the week for months.
Personally, I'd watch if they put fencing, judo, etc. on...but baseball? Yawn...I could watch the best players in the world every night for six months if I cared.
Flash (and Silverlight, et al) are a threat to the Internet generally.
Well, in general, I find this to be quite a sweeping statement.
Fahrenheit makes more sense in day to day contexts. 0 is very cold, 100 is very hot (both from a human experience point of view), and you have more precision on the temperatures in between.
Fahrenheit is a superior unit of measure. Each degree corresponds to the difference in temperature a human can sense. Celsius is arbitrary and much less precise.
The metric system got everything right except temperature.
Now in this particular case it's so cold that it doesn't really matter; if I told you it was -184 C, or -300 F it wouldn't really change the fact that you can't conceive of the temperature as anything but "really, really cold".
As the old story goes...a professor was lecturing that the Sun was 10,000,000 degrees. A student asked "Is that Celsius or Kelvin?" and he replied "What does it matter?"
...did we learn nothing from Godzilla!?!?
Some of us already live in the future and use SSD on our laptops
Um, no, some of you are living in 2008 and that's why your SSD drives are small and "every gigabyte is precious".
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (an authoritative court
Well thanks, dilute - I always thought the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Circuit Court was just a joke that everyone laughed off. Now I see it's an authoritative court.
This paragraph is 90% incendiary adjectives and biased verbs:
Let's see...
This style of writing is amateurish and written to inflame, not discuss. It's what high school students sound like when they are trying to passionately defend or discredit.
...particularly because they will likely move to another job someday and these libraries will no longer be available.
Right tool for the right job is a better skill to learn.
...the CWA, who provides the labor to install broadband, would never bias a report in favor of sky-is-falling need to urgently spend a lot of money on speeding broadband installations...
I'm greatly impressed with the air and ground integration of the Marines which, from what I've read, is lacking with the Air Force and Army.
Well, yes, if you have a narrowly defined mission, a small force custom built for it consisting only of elite troops, and design your own stuff from start to finish, it's a lot easier to get tight integration with the components. The Marines exist for short duty assault and offensive operations. The army and air force have to handle everything else.
Comparing the two is like saying "boy, those Rangers sure fight better than the National Guard.
The AF run in an Army mindset? Egad, that would be terrible!
You're right, they're very different:
"Airwalls" are very common in classified setups. Go figure - the best and brightest still trust physical separation more than promises of unbreakable firewalls.
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
in our hosts file...
The backup server not having the correct licenses is one of the biggest risks in a Disaster Recovery.
You mean, "a minor risk." Seriously. Calling your vendor (Symantec, IBM, whoever) and saying "we're doing a DR test and need to get temp licenses" should be part of your testing plan. All of the major backup software vendors are used to this. Of course, you should have your license info kept off-site with the rest of your documentation, etc., but running a full fire drill should include "our licenses are lost/don't work/the guy who knows where they are is dead, let's call Veritas and get a temp license."
Pretty standard in large organization DR testing.
I really don't think the fines would keep large corporations in line.
And yet, it does. Of all the Fortune 500 companies in which I've worked, I never saw any piracy. The risk/reward is too out of whack for big companies to consider it. Sure, you get some guy in the PC support department who burns himself a copy of Microsoft Office for home or something - that is unavoidable - but I never saw any piracy in companies.
I get the impression that the submitter has never heard any MC Hawking, Monzy, Beefy, Spam Tech Crew, never visited rhymetorrents, etc...the submitted tune is actually a pretty weak and amateurish example of Nerdcore.
...but I chown them and then I pwn them.
You're FUD doesn't work on an Oregonian my friend.
As Oregonians we have the greatest reason of all to not buy local and instead shop on the Internet: there's no sales tax in Oregon.
Me: "Hey. So, you're a biology nut and read Neal Stephanson in your spare time?
Like there are any hot women who are biology nuts and read Neal Stephanson.
The new prohibition movement has already gotten smoking banned in bars and the "legally drunk" alcohol level has been changed from "actually drunk" to "imperfectly sober". They've done this even though the lower alcohol levels are not associated with a high risk of crashes. They can seize your car and sell it to fund their agencies though.
Don't worry kid, by the time you're 25 you'll be partied out and vote for higher cigarette taxes and tougher drunk driving laws, too.