I'm probably flagged as a conspiracy theorist by google (ff/ddg incognito always). I have a whole section of google news of anti-trump stories and have been bombarded by them since 4 months before the election (they started over night). I've never clicked on a google news story (I simply don't care if it doesn't affect me and there's nothing I can do) other than the rare space related and only skim headlines. I get most of my news from wikipedia.
I can't be sure, but I'd bet it's similar to light to moderate plaque psoriasis. I don't know whether I should be thankful or not that google thinks I'm a menopausal woman.
I never got food at a movie theater. My parents said that was for stupid people. I had a 7th grade teacher who told the class the same thing when we were studying how movie theaters make their money (it's from concessions, not ticket sales).
When I was a kid, I didn't have a paper route, but went around the neighborhood pulling a wagon and dragging a lawnmower mowing people's yard for $5 each. Now immigrants do the same job for $100 a week/yard. It's a hot and dirty job. but takes an hour or so.
This was in Tacoma, so fairly large city in the Seattle metropolitan area. Not only that but I got recliner seating vs 1975 movie theater seating. That changeover occurred in the late 90's.
I know I didn't when I was 18-24, 18-26 actually. I barely had enough money for food, and sometimes didn't. I wasn't about to spend it on a movie. I probably saw 6 films in as many years and there was a $1 theater 4 minute walk away, $2 inflation adjusted.
I saw a movie last month for $9. Full adult price. Not only that, but I got to sit in one of those super computer controlled Japanese recliners. The theater was maybe 25% full (late Saturday afternoon).
You could rent a movie on VHS. Were you actually there? DVD weren't popular until after 2000. I got a PS2 specifically to watch movies and DVD selection lagged VHS for a while even then. The divx wars were ongoing and people were fence sitting.
I was very young when Star Wars, but I vividly remember that it cost $2.25. Plugging the values into the Inflation Calculator, I get a value of $9.04 today. I saw Hidden Figures last month and paid $9.00 for a ticket.
Minimum wage in 1977 was $2.31, or $9.29 inflation adjusted. Minimum wage as of January 1, 2017 - $10.00
Maybe movies just suck
For years, decades really, the internet, especially on armchair science and engineering websites, have echoed such pieces of wisdom such as space is so expensive because it is, it's so expensive that only governments could do it and no non government body would ever do anything in space because reasons. Disproving any or all of these would mean that a couple of generations wasted their chance to see a lot based not on science, but ideology.
I don't know anything about politics, but this level of ignorance is quite prevalent. The really sad thing is is that it's mostly arithmetic, you don't even need to know algebra to do the analysis.
Seattle gets about 3.7 hours per day average insolation. It doesn't make sense to put them there until you run out of space in AZ and California. Your roi is 2x higher in those places. Worse than that, it doesn't provide energy in the winter when it's needed most. I have a house there and my summer electric bill is next to nothing.
I don't think Ponds & Fleishman could have thought that they could get very far with a scam, especially with something so trivially demonstrable that a grade school student could disprove it in two days with ten minutes of effort. The ecat thing is another story.
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What's that worth?
250 hours of playing Gran Turismo while listening to Ghetto Boys at full volume on my stereo
Sweden has a lower corporate tax rate than Germany.
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I keep getting /. ads for prom dresses. Not that I'm complaining, but it seems a little mismatched.
We just have to get one half the people one way and the other half the other way;
I'm probably flagged as a conspiracy theorist by google (ff/ddg incognito always). I have a whole section of google news of anti-trump stories and have been bombarded by them since 4 months before the election (they started over night). I've never clicked on a google news story (I simply don't care if it doesn't affect me and there's nothing I can do) other than the rare space related and only skim headlines. I get most of my news from wikipedia.
I can't be sure, but I'd bet it's similar to light to moderate plaque psoriasis. I don't know whether I should be thankful or not that google thinks I'm a menopausal woman.
I never got food at a movie theater. My parents said that was for stupid people. I had a 7th grade teacher who told the class the same thing when we were studying how movie theaters make their money (it's from concessions, not ticket sales).
When I was a kid, I didn't have a paper route, but went around the neighborhood pulling a wagon and dragging a lawnmower mowing people's yard for $5 each. Now immigrants do the same job for $100 a week/yard. It's a hot and dirty job. but takes an hour or so.
How are multiple lamp filaments any different than one large filament?
When I was in Ireland, all the Germans were drinking Budweiser.
This was in Tacoma, so fairly large city in the Seattle metropolitan area. Not only that but I got recliner seating vs 1975 movie theater seating. That changeover occurred in the late 90's.
I know I didn't when I was 18-24, 18-26 actually. I barely had enough money for food, and sometimes didn't. I wasn't about to spend it on a movie. I probably saw 6 films in as many years and there was a $1 theater 4 minute walk away, $2 inflation adjusted.
I saw a movie last month for $9. Full adult price. Not only that, but I got to sit in one of those super computer controlled Japanese recliners. The theater was maybe 25% full (late Saturday afternoon).
This has been predicted for the last twenty years
You could rent a movie on VHS. Were you actually there? DVD weren't popular until after 2000. I got a PS2 specifically to watch movies and DVD selection lagged VHS for a while even then. The divx wars were ongoing and people were fence sitting.
I was very young when Star Wars, but I vividly remember that it cost $2.25. Plugging the values into the Inflation Calculator, I get a value of $9.04 today. I saw Hidden Figures last month and paid $9.00 for a ticket.
Minimum wage in 1977 was $2.31, or $9.29 inflation adjusted. Minimum wage as of January 1, 2017 - $10.00 Maybe movies just suck
Hey, that's IBM's business model also. They get even more money from NASA than spacex.
It's a big problem if you are not the ULA.
For years, decades really, the internet, especially on armchair science and engineering websites, have echoed such pieces of wisdom such as space is so expensive because it is, it's so expensive that only governments could do it and no non government body would ever do anything in space because reasons. Disproving any or all of these would mean that a couple of generations wasted their chance to see a lot based not on science, but ideology.
I don't know anything about politics, but this level of ignorance is quite prevalent. The really sad thing is is that it's mostly arithmetic, you don't even need to know algebra to do the analysis.
Seattle gets about 3.7 hours per day average insolation. It doesn't make sense to put them there until you run out of space in AZ and California. Your roi is 2x higher in those places. Worse than that, it doesn't provide energy in the winter when it's needed most. I have a house there and my summer electric bill is next to nothing.
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/ol...
can you show this mathematically?
My solar panels are 14% efficient and cost 11 cents per watt.
I don't think Ponds & Fleishman could have thought that they could get very far with a scam, especially with something so trivially demonstrable that a grade school student could disprove it in two days with ten minutes of effort. The ecat thing is another story.
aviation fuel and electricity as the advances in battery technology fail to materialise for 50, Alex.