All such accumulations of vast, winner-take-all wealth represent, in part, the poor negotiating skills of the employees. Give the money to America's labor unions so that middle-class Americans can negotiate health care and homeownership for themselves, and so that there were be fewer and poorer megabillionaires possessed with the impulse to bestow their charity on the third world instead of here at home.
A coupla years ago when I lived and worked in DC there was an ever-smiling WaPo employee named Sheldon. He used to stand in front of the Van Dorn metro station, rain or shine, probably still does, handing out the free dumbed-down weekly-reader edition of the WaPo. Now I would save trees and metro cleanup costs by reading the paper on my smartphone. I would tease Sheldon. "Sheldon, don't you want to know my date of birth?" He looked at me like I was crazy. "If I give you my email address, can I have a free paper?" He seemed hurt that I never took the free paper, and puzzled I would ask him such stupid questions.
I want an ethanol-fueled PDA-cell-phone-combination with integral hip flask. Just unscrew the antenna and imbibe. Thash not a swizzle stick, Ofisher, thash my stylus!
Wild fluctuations in stock prices always take place the third Friday of each month due to Options expiration. Insiders who knew Google stock would decline 8 percent on Friday made 10,000 percent or more by buying a "put" option on Thursday. The MSM never attribute price fluctuations to options expiration, in this case they blamed "GE earnings reports." Next Feb 17 it will be the same story, the pros will target some other stock to go way up or down on that date and insider trading fortunes will be made.
Great news. You're going to plead guilty. (Urp!) Have I got a plea bargain for you! (Zzip!) If you don't plead guilty, the deal is never gonna get better. (Zzip, urp!) You know if you don't plead guilty you could go away for 0xFF years....
It's not informative to merely point out that electrical resistance elements are 100% energy efficient. Consider the system. There are no 100%-efficient tank water heaters, even electric ones. This is because the hot water in the tank dissipates energy. The tank has a foam insulating blanket around it, but the insulation is not 100% efficient. Usually the dissipated energy is wasted. The water eventually cools, triggers the thermostat, and more energy is applied. Most of the time there is little demand for hot water -- it rests in the tank, alternately cooling and being reheated.
On-demand water heaters lose no energy to tank dissipation, but may not be 100% efficient in heating the water. So the proper basis for comparison is to find the actual energy efficiency of the system by measuring the hot water output (WaterQty * (Thotwater - Tcoldwater) / day), and dividing by (BTUInput / day) for both on-demand and tank types of systems. Then I would compare the efficiency of existing on-demand (gas) heaters vs. microwave systems.
Hooray for Google for competing with web businesses that are useful but have become fat, complacent, and contemptuous of their customers (e.g. eBay). I would like to nominate Priceline.com, the purveyor of cheap hotel rooms and rent-a-cars.
By Paul L. Montgomery, New York Times, Feb. 21, 1971
A "human error" yesterday put Americans on an emergency alert of the type that would be used in a nuclear attack.
It was 40 minutes before the error was cleared up at the National Emergency Warning Center at Cheyenne Mountain, Colo.
An employee at the center, in a confusion over punched tapes that are prepared in advance, put on the wire to the country's radio and television stations at 9:33 A.M. a message saying that the President had declared a national emergency and that normal broadcasting was to cease "immediately."
The message contained the code word "hatefulness," which was to be used only in the event of a real alert.
In the subsequent turmoil, a number of stations around the country went off the air after telling listeners of the "emergency." Others quickly checked and found that the transmission was an error and continued normal broadcasting.
"I saw the authenticated message and thought, 'My God! It's Dec. 7 all over again!'" said Chuck Kelly of WWCM in Brazil, Ind., who took his station off the air for 22 minutes.
The National Emergency Warning Center frantically tried to cancel the message several times, but it was not until 10:13 A. M. that it found the proper code word-"impish"--to indicate that the cancellation was authentic.
The false alert did not affect any of the country's military arms because the error originated with the office charged with informing civilians of impending disaster. However, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird ordered an immediate investigation.
Louis I. Smoyer, chief of the warning center, said that the error occurred when a civilian operator at the center put on the wire a tape for a real alert instead of a test tape.
The operator, W. S. Eberhardt, who has worked 15 years at the center, said afterward: "I can't imagine how the hell I did it."
Because the false alert looked exactly like the real one, and because many broadcasting stations did not follow the procedures called for in a real emergency, the incident raised questions about the effectiveness of the civilian warning system.
A spokesman for the Office of Civil Defense in Washington, asked if the system would work in a real emergency as it did yesterday, replied, "That's one of the things I've always wondered about."
The warning center is part of the nuclear alert complex in the base of Cheyenne Mountain, 10 miles south of Colorado Springs. The center, protected by thick concrete and mounted on springs to allay nuclear shock, is operated by the Office of Civil Defense. Communications in the center are staffed by civilian employees of the Army Strategic Communications Command.
In an actual nuclear alert, the warning of impending attack would come from the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) in the mountain, which operates the radar warning systems ringing the United States and Canada.
The warning would then be transmitted to the American and Canadian Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Governments of the two countries, to the Polaris missile fleet, to the Strategic Air Command, and to the National Emergency Warning Center, which is the link with the civilian population.
Under Civil Defense strategy, the radio and television stations are the primary means of warning civilians that an attack is impending.
The warning center is directly connected into the Associated Press and United Press International radio news wires, which go to the country's stations. The circuit is tested at least twice a week, and there is an elaborate system of codes so that what happened yesterday supposedly could not happen.
Every three months, each radio station is sent a list of the code words for each day that must be included in a message from the warning cent
In other news, Intel engineers have developed a new dual-core motherboard featuring twin hexahedral processors and a new socket design.
"We've gone beyond zero insertion force -- you just throw the cubes into the enclosure and they will connect," said an Intel spokesman.
According to the spokesman, the functionality of the system will depend on the orientation of the chips as they land in their respective sockets. If the chips land on 7 or 11, Windows will run; 2, 3, or 12 produces the Blue Screen of Death. Similarly, any other number will produce an exception unless it is thrown again before a 7.
Nobody here has talked about the importance of knowing how to negotiate, whether it be over a diamond engagement ring, or anything else of importance. Your typical kid diamond buyer takes his SO to the local mall jewelry store. He has no knowledge of the grades (color, and clarity) of diamonds and the differences in value that they represent; he has never heard of the grading services GIA and EGL; and, most importantly, by bringing the SO he lets the sales rep play to her heartstrings and his sense of guilt. Many mall jewelers don't even tell you the grade of the diamonds they sell, nor do they have independently-graded diamonds for sale (or they offer diamonds graded by some no-name agency you never heard of).
First of all, this would be a good time to invest in a seminar on how to negotiate (e.g. Karrass Negotiation Seminars). This will help you in your marriage, just as much as in material things like buying a diamond ring or a car or getting the highest possible starting pay rate.
Second, you need to learn about how to buy diamonds, go to google.com and type in, "Diamond Buying FAQ".
Write it into the Constitution that the entire law of a state (or of the federal government) can not exceed x number of bytes, and the most recently-enacted (total bytes - x) bytes (or the oldest such number of bytes) are deemed invalid (i.e. they go to the bit bucket).
CAL. FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE SECTIONS 37291-37292
37291. Renovated butter is the product made from impure or rancid butter reduced, for the purpose of cleansing and renovating, to a liquid state by melting and draining off the liquid milk fat and afterwards churning or otherwise manipulating it in connection with milk or any product of milk.
37292. It is unlawful for any person to sell any renovated butter unless there is printed upon the label of each and every package, or other container in which such renovated butter is put up for sale or sold at retail, all of the following:
(a) The words "renovated butter" in letters which are at least as large as any other type or lettering on such label.
(b) The name and address of the manufacturer or distributor.
(c) The net weight of the contents of the package.
(d) A full and accurate statement of all the ingredients which are contained in the renovated butter.
The law against duelling also had some modern, real-life applications (the penalty was 2, 3, or 4 years in state prison) in cases where persons would shoot one another as part of a mutual combat, e.g. Crips v. Bloods.
Actually, sometimes it happens that a court decision invalidates a whold bunch of laws that most people would consider good public policy. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that roads on military bases in Virginia are not "Virginia highways," thus invalidating most traffic laws on military bases in Virginia. So if you find yourself on a military base in Virginia (and you are not in the military and therefore subject to military discipline) feel free to drive as fast as you want.
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The problem I always have is how to turn my prototype back into a concept.
All such accumulations of vast, winner-take-all wealth represent, in part, the poor negotiating skills of the employees. Give the money to America's labor unions so that middle-class Americans can negotiate health care and homeownership for themselves, and so that there were be fewer and poorer megabillionaires possessed with the impulse to bestow their charity on the third world instead of here at home.
No. This Joe Lieberman can be counted upon not to run as an independent even if Ned Lamont wins the Connecticut U.S. Senate primary.
A coupla years ago when I lived and worked in DC there was an ever-smiling WaPo employee named Sheldon. He used to stand in front of the Van Dorn metro station, rain or shine, probably still does, handing out the free dumbed-down weekly-reader edition of the WaPo. Now I would save trees and metro cleanup costs by reading the paper on my smartphone. I would tease Sheldon. "Sheldon, don't you want to know my date of birth?" He looked at me like I was crazy. "If I give you my email address, can I have a free paper?" He seemed hurt that I never took the free paper, and puzzled I would ask him such stupid questions.
Every time Congress passes a cable TV bill, the price goes up. The same will be true of the internet.
I want an ethanol-fueled PDA-cell-phone-combination with integral hip flask. Just unscrew the antenna and imbibe. Thash not a swizzle stick, Ofisher, thash my stylus!
Wild fluctuations in stock prices always take place the third Friday of each month due to Options expiration. Insiders who knew Google stock would decline 8 percent on Friday made 10,000 percent or more by buying a "put" option on Thursday. The MSM never attribute price fluctuations
to options expiration, in this case they blamed "GE earnings reports." Next Feb 17 it will be the same story, the pros will target some other stock to go way up or down on that date and insider trading fortunes will be made.
Will it run SAP?
They're called "public defenders."
Great news. You're going to plead guilty. (Urp!) Have I got a plea bargain for you! (Zzip!) If you don't plead guilty, the deal is never gonna get better. (Zzip, urp!) You know if you don't plead guilty you could go away for 0xFF years....
It's not informative to merely point out that electrical resistance elements are 100% energy efficient. Consider the system. There are no 100%-efficient tank water heaters, even electric ones. This is because the hot water in the tank dissipates energy. The tank has a foam insulating blanket around it, but the insulation is not 100% efficient. Usually the dissipated energy is wasted. The water eventually cools, triggers the thermostat, and more energy is applied. Most of the time there is little demand for hot water -- it rests in the tank, alternately cooling and being reheated.
On-demand water heaters lose no energy to tank dissipation, but may not be 100% efficient in heating the water. So the proper basis for comparison is to find the actual energy efficiency of the system by measuring the hot water output (WaterQty * (Thotwater - Tcoldwater) / day), and dividing by (BTUInput / day) for both on-demand and tank types of systems. Then I would compare the efficiency of existing on-demand (gas) heaters vs. microwave systems.
Hooray for Google for competing with web businesses that are useful but have become fat, complacent, and contemptuous of their customers (e.g. eBay). I would like to nominate Priceline.com, the purveyor of cheap hotel rooms and rent-a-cars.
It depends. YMMV.
So it would need a vacuum gauge?
...on a room service tray in the hallway of a 3000-year old hotel
AntiBeano.
Mod parent up.
It's the end of linear television, no more film at 11. It's the beginning, and the end, of television as we know it.
...that the employees in question were (drum roll) SECURITY GUARDS??
...?
Isn't it reasonable to prohibit your security guards from getting too friendly with one another, or even getting to know one another?
How you say... Inside Job
"We've gone beyond zero insertion force -- you just throw the cubes into the enclosure and they will connect," said an Intel spokesman.
According to the spokesman, the functionality of the system will depend on the orientation of the chips as they land in their respective sockets. If the chips land on 7 or 11, Windows will run; 2, 3, or 12 produces the Blue Screen of Death. Similarly, any other number will produce an exception unless it is thrown again before a 7.
First of all, this would be a good time to invest in a seminar on how to negotiate (e.g. Karrass Negotiation Seminars). This will help you in your marriage, just as much as in material things like buying a diamond ring or a car or getting the highest possible starting pay rate.
Second, you need to learn about how to buy diamonds, go to google.com and type in, "Diamond Buying FAQ".
Write it into the Constitution that the entire law of a state (or of the federal government) can not exceed x number of bytes, and the most recently-enacted (total bytes - x) bytes (or the oldest such number of bytes) are deemed invalid (i.e. they go to the bit bucket).
The law against duelling also had some modern, real-life applications (the penalty was 2, 3, or 4 years in state prison) in cases where persons would shoot one another as part of a mutual combat, e.g. Crips v. Bloods.
Actually, sometimes it happens that a court decision invalidates a whold bunch of laws that most people would consider good public policy. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that roads on military bases in Virginia are not "Virginia highways," thus invalidating most traffic laws on military bases in Virginia. So if you find yourself on a military base in Virginia (and you are not in the military and therefore subject to military discipline) feel free to drive as fast as you want.