Note that they're measuring the entire economy, not just the media of individual transactions. They're only saying that 3% of the kroner out there are cold, hard cash rather than numbers on a balance sheet.
It's not about how often you choose plastic over paper, but how much of your paycheck you take out of the ATM.
The only time they charge more than $50 for a Wii game is when an accessory is packed in with it.
Of course, that's about my price point for console games in general regardless; I wait for those $60 games to become $50 games before I shell out money for them.
The most accurate timekeeper is actually a battery of atomic clocks, with an average taken (after all known relativistic distortions are accounted for), called TAI. If your new clock hews to that average better than the individual atomic clocks used to generate that average, it's more accurate.
Third-party tools also gave Windows 7 back the "Classic Start Menu" that had been available from Windows 95 through Windows Vista.
Note the insignificant installed based of these tools.
When push comes to shove, this is a third-party application, which, while of great interest to a small number of devotees on their personal machines, are not a realistic (let alone desirable) option in a managed network environment. And as you're forced to use the new UI at work, you'll be less inclined to reject it at home.
The new UI is here to stay, and these tools shouldn't be viewed as anything more than a crutch to aid in your ultimate transition away from the old one. If you really don't like the new interface, don't upgrade to Windows 8 to begin with.
Employers must not require employees, contractors or applicants to interact with the company through any social networking service with their personal accounts.
That's adorable.
Now, what if the employer has a "moral objection" to that? After all, employees can always go find another employer if they don't like it, right?
This is one bill that will never be seen outside of committee.
So long as the parent insists that the cited line is the same thing as "representative democracy," yes. If "republicanism" and "democracy" are considered to be two points on the same spectrum, then the US must necessarily be closer to the communist PRC than the aristocratic UK. There are no peers in the National People's Congress.
To summarize the definition in my dictionary, a republic is a state in which sovereignty resides in (a portion of) the people, and certain powers are lodged in elected officials.
How does that disqualify the People's Republic of China, or the former Soviet Union?
It had a high initial equipment investment, was slow (painfully slow), didn't look all that good compared to actual TV, had hourly charges, and very limited content.
First, there's absolutely no reason to have a runt month like February.
365 is the product of two prime numbers. You can either have 5 divisions of 73 days each, or 73 divisions of 5 days each. Otherwise, there is no nice, neat way to divide up the calendar.
EVERY MONTH shall have 30 or 31 days EVERY YEAR.
That breaks the predictability of the seasons. As they are now, both solstices and one equinox are at roughly 11 days before the end of their respective months. The odd man out is September, and that can't be fixed while abiding by your "30 or 31 only" declaration.
Keep in mind that the seasons all have different lengths, owing to the variation in the earth's velocity (faster near perihelion, etc.).
Second, to fix the divisibility issues, we shall shorten the leap days to 23 hours 49 minutes and 17.663 seconds (or whatever the correct length is to account for the not-quite-1/4 extra day per year effect).
First off, that breaks the mean solar day. The entire point of a calendar is to count integer numbers of mean solar days.
Second, the "correct length" varies from year to year, and is typically only known after the fact. In fact, both the mean solar day and the mean tropical year are inconstant and vary wholly independently from each other.
Third, the length of your intercalary day can't be remembered by the average high school graduate. The current system can be reproduced by the average elementary school student to 97% accuracy. Exceptions are once in a lifetime, and not even in our lifetime.
Keep in mind that the Gregorian calendar is accurate for its intended purposes for several more millennia at least.
Third, to minimize disruptions to work schedules and reruns of Leave It To Beaver, leap days, when they occur, shall be on December 31. And it shall be declared a holiday in all jurisdictions.
Good luck with that. Not all governments use the Gregorian Calendar for all purposes as it is.
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Our whole calendar is messed up. First- Jan 1st is a poor start date.
I suspect the original pioneers intended the year to start on the Winter Solstice-
Yes, but Julius Caesar decided to start it on the first new moon following. And based on the best data available at the time, every 19th year would have started on a new moon (see below).
which is more like Dec 21st most years on our calendar.
More like Dec 25 at the time, hence the date of Christmas.
So- The year should start on Dec21st.
It took almost 2500 years for everyone to agree to start their year with January (instead of March). George Washington himself was fuzzy on what year he was born. Now, after just getting things straightened out (on a relative time scale), you want to fuck with it again?
Then- our months are supposed to be based on cycles of the moon (Approx every 28 days)-
29.5 days. The usual approximation is alternating months of 29 days and 30 days in length.
but because there were 13 and superstitious nitwits didn't like 13 we have 12 months with varying days.
13-month years work for all the cultures with a lunar calendar, e. g. the Jews and the Chinese. The biggest problem is reckoning when the 13th month gets added. If you treat the tropical year as 365 days, you have to add an extra synodic month 7 times in 19 years (Metonic cycle). If you use 365.25 days for a tropical year, it's more accurate to say that 28 are added in 76 years (Callippic cycle). And if you're using the even-more-accurate 365.2425-day approximation... well, go search for the term "epact."
The whole 7 day week is rather random too-
Try counting the number of days between the first visibility of the new crescent moon and first quarter. Only your eyes and your ability to estimate the illumination of the moon are allowed.
based on some out-of-date dogma that is probably mistranslated. (the original word in Genesis translated as "day" was more accurately "a period of time" although it was often "day" but not necessarily)
If you're referring to chapter 1, note that "day" is always paired with "night."
Let's make a week 10 days- a much more logical number.
Revolutionary France called, they want their "decades" back.
Regardless, (365 mod 7) = 1 while (365 mod 10) = 5.
So we have 36 weeks in a year. If we MUST have a bigger break- we can divide these into 9 months of 4 weeks each.
Even Revolutionary France understood the importance of the four seasons, with agriculture being the foundation of modern civilization and all.
We would then have 5 or 6 days at the end- a "half week"
Coptic Egyptians want their "epagomenal days" back.
Not perfect- but based more on logic than our current system and no-silly formulas needed (other than determining the solstice)
And you would once again have devised a calendar system that focuses on rationalism at the expense of pragmatism and utility, using many ideas have have been tried for centuries or even millennia. Here's what you'd be abandoning:
1.) It is currently trivial to determine what day of the week successive years start on.
2.) All solstices and equinoxes roughly occur the same number of days before the end of their respective months.
3.) Equinoxes and solstices are treated as dates rather than instants (at this instant, it's February 29 in North America and March 1 in Asia).
4.) All days are allotted to a month.
5.) All days are allotted to a week.
6.) Intercalary days follow a simple mathematical pattern with once-in-a-lifetime exceptions.
In fact, 2, 4 and 6 above were deliberate design choices on the part of Julius Caesar specifically to keep things simple.
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The idea is that you can do anything you want with it.
The reality, not so much.
The holders of the cards that buy stuff at these merchants are their product.
Yes, and that's why credit cards never charge interest.
They're not Google.
Note that they're measuring the entire economy, not just the media of individual transactions. They're only saying that 3% of the kroner out there are cold, hard cash rather than numbers on a balance sheet.
It's not about how often you choose plastic over paper, but how much of your paycheck you take out of the ATM.
with no customer fees
What about merchant fees? After all, Visa and MasterCard tend not to charge their customers either.
Visa and MasterCard couldn't be happier.
They don't want the Federation to hear them coming.
It is extremely difficult to infect a computer with malicious code via a paper business card.
[citation needed]
Focusing on hiring Americans is as close to organized labor as we're going to get in my lifetime.
The only time they charge more than $50 for a Wii game is when an accessory is packed in with it.
Of course, that's about my price point for console games in general regardless; I wait for those $60 games to become $50 games before I shell out money for them.
A well-written Wikipedia article should
There's that word again...
The most accurate timekeeper is actually a battery of atomic clocks, with an average taken (after all known relativistic distortions are accounted for), called TAI. If your new clock hews to that average better than the individual atomic clocks used to generate that average, it's more accurate.
A light bulb with no "native resolution!"
They thought Anonymous was stupid, too.
It's been a long time since I tried to read my keyboard.
Third-party tools also gave Windows 7 back the "Classic Start Menu" that had been available from Windows 95 through Windows Vista.
Note the insignificant installed based of these tools.
When push comes to shove, this is a third-party application, which, while of great interest to a small number of devotees on their personal machines, are not a realistic (let alone desirable) option in a managed network environment. And as you're forced to use the new UI at work, you'll be less inclined to reject it at home.
The new UI is here to stay, and these tools shouldn't be viewed as anything more than a crutch to aid in your ultimate transition away from the old one. If you really don't like the new interface, don't upgrade to Windows 8 to begin with.
And hope you don't get kicked off unemployment? The rent doesn't pay itself, you know.
Employers must not require employees, contractors or applicants to interact with the company through any social networking service with their personal accounts.
That's adorable.
Now, what if the employer has a "moral objection" to that? After all, employees can always go find another employer if they don't like it, right?
This is one bill that will never be seen outside of committee.
Does it have to?
So long as the parent insists that the cited line is the same thing as "representative democracy," yes. If "republicanism" and "democracy" are considered to be two points on the same spectrum, then the US must necessarily be closer to the communist PRC than the aristocratic UK. There are no peers in the National People's Congress.
To summarize the definition in my dictionary, a republic is a state in which sovereignty resides in (a portion of) the people, and certain powers are lodged in elected officials.
How does that disqualify the People's Republic of China, or the former Soviet Union?
"Republic" means "no monarchy." "Democracy" means "elections." Don't pretend those words mean anything more than that.
Republic and Democracy: France
Democracy but not Republic: UK
Republic but not Democracy: PRC
Neither: Saudi Arabia
So please, please stop with the trite, hackneyed nonsense about "This is why the US Constitution is republican but not democratic" because... no.
a site were you can solve Calcudoku number puzzles.
Ahem.
And publishing your "paper" on your own website doesn't make it peer-reviewed either.
It had a high initial equipment investment, was slow (painfully slow), didn't look all that good compared to actual TV, had hourly charges, and very limited content.
In other words, it was from AT&T.
First, there's absolutely no reason to have a runt month like February.
365 is the product of two prime numbers. You can either have 5 divisions of 73 days each, or 73 divisions of 5 days each. Otherwise, there is no nice, neat way to divide up the calendar.
EVERY MONTH shall have 30 or 31 days EVERY YEAR.
That breaks the predictability of the seasons. As they are now, both solstices and one equinox are at roughly 11 days before the end of their respective months. The odd man out is September, and that can't be fixed while abiding by your "30 or 31 only" declaration.
Keep in mind that the seasons all have different lengths, owing to the variation in the earth's velocity (faster near perihelion, etc.).
Second, to fix the divisibility issues, we shall shorten the leap days to 23 hours 49 minutes and 17.663 seconds (or whatever the correct length is to account for the not-quite-1/4 extra day per year effect).
First off, that breaks the mean solar day. The entire point of a calendar is to count integer numbers of mean solar days.
Second, the "correct length" varies from year to year, and is typically only known after the fact. In fact, both the mean solar day and the mean tropical year are inconstant and vary wholly independently from each other.
Third, the length of your intercalary day can't be remembered by the average high school graduate. The current system can be reproduced by the average elementary school student to 97% accuracy. Exceptions are once in a lifetime, and not even in our lifetime.
Keep in mind that the Gregorian calendar is accurate for its intended purposes for several more millennia at least.
Third, to minimize disruptions to work schedules and reruns of Leave It To Beaver, leap days, when they occur, shall be on December 31. And it shall be declared a holiday in all jurisdictions.
Good luck with that. Not all governments use the Gregorian Calendar for all purposes as it is.
Our whole calendar is messed up. First- Jan 1st is a poor start date.
I suspect the original pioneers intended the year to start on the Winter Solstice-
Yes, but Julius Caesar decided to start it on the first new moon following. And based on the best data available at the time, every 19th year would have started on a new moon (see below).
which is more like Dec 21st most years on our calendar.
More like Dec 25 at the time, hence the date of Christmas.
So- The year should start on Dec21st.
It took almost 2500 years for everyone to agree to start their year with January (instead of March). George Washington himself was fuzzy on what year he was born. Now, after just getting things straightened out (on a relative time scale), you want to fuck with it again?
Then- our months are supposed to be based on cycles of the moon (Approx every 28 days)-
29.5 days. The usual approximation is alternating months of 29 days and 30 days in length.
but because there were 13 and superstitious nitwits didn't like 13 we have 12 months with varying days.
13-month years work for all the cultures with a lunar calendar, e. g. the Jews and the Chinese. The biggest problem is reckoning when the 13th month gets added. If you treat the tropical year as 365 days, you have to add an extra synodic month 7 times in 19 years (Metonic cycle). If you use 365.25 days for a tropical year, it's more accurate to say that 28 are added in 76 years (Callippic cycle). And if you're using the even-more-accurate 365.2425-day approximation... well, go search for the term "epact."
The whole 7 day week is rather random too-
Try counting the number of days between the first visibility of the new crescent moon and first quarter. Only your eyes and your ability to estimate the illumination of the moon are allowed.
based on some out-of-date dogma that is probably mistranslated. (the original word in Genesis translated as "day" was more accurately "a period of time" although it was often "day" but not necessarily)
If you're referring to chapter 1, note that "day" is always paired with "night."
Let's make a week 10 days- a much more logical number.
Revolutionary France called, they want their "decades" back.
Regardless, (365 mod 7) = 1 while (365 mod 10) = 5.
So we have 36 weeks in a year. If we MUST have a bigger break- we can divide these into 9 months of 4 weeks each.
Even Revolutionary France understood the importance of the four seasons, with agriculture being the foundation of modern civilization and all.
We would then have 5 or 6 days at the end- a "half week"
Coptic Egyptians want their "epagomenal days" back.
Not perfect- but based more on logic than our current system and no-silly formulas needed (other than determining the solstice)
And you would once again have devised a calendar system that focuses on rationalism at the expense of pragmatism and utility, using many ideas have have been tried for centuries or even millennia. Here's what you'd be abandoning:
In fact, 2, 4 and 6 above were deliberate design choices on the part of Julius Caesar specifically to keep things simple.