A lot more work is needed to determine the source of the bacteria, which might be brought in through the water system or through dirt that accumulates on peoples' bodies during the day. What role soap plays when it mixes with the bacteria also is unclear.
Looks to me like somebody's fishing for their funding for the next year. It must be nice to make a living out of researching the blindingly obvious.
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Just because the DoD has a larger budget does not mean that NASA's budget is not also very large. $15 billion is one-fourth of the entire one year budget for the entire state of Texas, which has one of the largest budgets of any state in the USA. If you still want to tell me that $15 billion is a shoestring budget, then you'd better start worrying more about what little the states have to work with and less about NASA. You have a warped perspective on this if you truly think $15 billion is not a lot of money.
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Yes and no - walmart.com, for example, has been in violation of the law for a long time if they haven't been collecting.
Wal-mart.com is not in violation because their online business is legally separate from the retail stores, thus not meeting the physical presence (nexus) rule that would require them to collect tax in every state.
Depending on the humidity and the season in your part of the country, you could very well be venting air with moisture into the walls. Also, think about when you turn the system off and you are left with highly varying temperatures between the insides and outsides of the wall. It would be very easy to have a moisture problem on one side of the wall and/or the other. Whether it occurs inside or outside the wall, which will depend on all of the variable conditions, it's still a potential problem.
It seems to me that venting the heat into your walls could cause condensation or other moisture problems inside of your walls. It also seems like you could get some very strange noises resulting from the forced air going into an enclosed space. The backpressure from exhausting into the wall could also shorten your fan life or possibly worse. If you have fire blocking in your walls, you could be blowing hot air into a space as little as 16" x 24" or so, and once that heats up you'll be getting the heat back into your room as it radiates through the drywall.
You also couldn't effectively use this on an exterior wall because insulation should be taking up all of the available air space inside the wall cavity anyway. Also, not all of the heat your computer generates is going to be exhausted by the fan, so this may not result in a huge reduction anyway, and it becomes even more problematic if you have more than one exhaust fan. Just a few thoughts I had.
I do tend to look for negative reviews as they're definitely not paid for!
Who's to say that negative reviews aren't also paid for? Paid for by, say, a competitor? Or they could be made up by a competitor's employees. Or they could be written by a third-party with an axe to grind for some unknown reason. Anything is possible, so one obviously needs to read all the reviews and make judgements on the reliability of both the good and the bad reviews.
Yep, I'm not buying stuff from those retailers again. Just think, if enough people do this, and hurt revenues, then corporations will recognize the stupidity of the DMCA and pressure congress to nullify it.
You need to tell them why you aren't buying from them anymore or they won't know why their sales are down... so be sure to send them some correspondance which indicates your reasons for buying from other places.
I think it's more likely that they are worried about consumers knowing how the prices are about to change.
It's a combination of things, obviously, of which competition, price fixing, price wars, and consumers' timing of purchases are some of the factors. Price wars can be extraordinarily damaging, as anyone who has followed the airlines historically knows. Also, competitive advantages are so short in the markets of today that even a temporary unmatched price advantage could be a huge boon to a particular retailer.
Whenever I check out the price comparison sites, I won't bother looking into a vendor that isn't listed or won't let itself be listed. Most people have a general idea of how much the item they are looking for will cost anyway. Based on that, you can usually find a great price from multiple people, so why bother looking up the prices of the few who won't be listed? It seems that they may lose sales from people like me who won't spend the extra time it would take to look them up individually.
As for how the DMCA relates to this, it's obviously just a way for the companies to make an excuse for delisting their prices. They think that not having the prices public will help them stay out of price wars or other competitive practices, but it's not like this would stop secret shoppers or anything.
They do allow for multiple remotes. My garage door opener, which uses the same technology, will allow for up to seven remotes. When you get a new remote, you must sync it with the opener unit before it will work by pressing button combinations on both the opener and the remote. Car alarms often work in a similar fashion.
Anyone notice that Excite [excite.com] is not allowing Mozilla users? I get this Error message [excite.com].
Funny - that message only told me that it didn't allow browsers with JavaScript and/or cookies disabled. It didn't mention a thing about Mozilla. Or are you telling us you have both JS and cookies enabled and that you still get that error message?
(for some reason you made more pay if you worked second shift/overnight shift)
It's not odd. It's usually called Shift Differential Pay, and it is very common in hourly jobs. Nurses, policemen, firemen, 911 operators, etc. all get the extra pay in order to compensate them for not being able to live a "regular" lifestyle because they are working in the middle of the night or other odd hours.
Re:Any long amount of time in front of a computer
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Bad for you. Let us not forget our Korean friend that died after playing EverQuest for 80 hours straight. Our human bodies are simply not made for that kind of exertion.
While I agree that you shouldn't sit in one place working on a computer for such an extended period, I would add that our bodies were made for exertion - not for sitting on our backsides all day - and that a lack of regular exercise and/or breaks is also a contributor to physical/mental problems.
In short - long sessions of physical inactivity of any form are bad for you, whether that be watching TV all day or coding all night.
Can you imagine having to try to figure out what sales tax to charge and who to forward the payment on to if local/state governments are allowed to tax online sales? Not only do you have to contend with different rates for different localities, but you have to mess with different exemptions and ways of classifying products for tax purposes. This will kill the small online merchants in a heartbeat.
The Streamlined Sales Tax Project, currently underway with leaders from half of the states, would set a standard rate for all Internet sales of goods, with the possibility of a second rate for foods. This would eliminate the problem of differing rates based on localities, as the states would agree to accept the same rate.
More information about the SSTP can be found here.
I would tend to think that sub captains, XO's, etc. would still be somewhat like a fighter pilot in terms of their ego, but I see your point about the crew not necessarily caring too much. Thanks for the clarification.
If you don't want to take the door off, use either vents or fans. Pre-made vents and fans specifically for entertainment centers are available from several suppliers, including this one.
Try these vents, or these, or these. Put some vents at the bottom and some at the top along the sides or the rear wall and the case will draw cool air from the bottom while the heat rises out of the top vents. If you need still more cooling, add a power fan which includes a dust filter.
to waxing the windows on the outside so that rain just streaks away from your field of view in the rain (you should try it - you hardly need to turn on the windshield wipers in lighter rains).
You should really try Rain-X - it works the way you want it to and wipers do not pose a problem.
If the two parties are in different states, no sales tax applies.
That is incorrect in most, if not all, states. You are still obligated to pay the sales tax, but you must declare it yourself and send it in to your state taxing entity yourself.
Currently, an online business does not have to collect a sales tax from you in an online transaction, unless they have a physical presence in your state. Just because they are not collecting the tax for you does not remove your obligation to pay it - you can, in fact, face penalties for not sending the taxes in yourself, but so far those penalties have only been applied to purchases with large dollar amounts often involving jewelry or high-dollar art.
It is a common misconception.
(however, the Streamlined Sales Tax may soon bring many states into a single sales tax structure for online purchases, at which point the online merchant will collect the taxes even if they do not have a physical presence in a participating SST state, and that will remove your obligation to send the taxes in yourself since you will have paid them at the point of purchase)
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Looks to me like somebody's fishing for their funding for the next year. It must be nice to make a living out of researching the blindingly obvious.
Just because the DoD has a larger budget does not mean that NASA's budget is not also very large. $15 billion is one-fourth of the entire one year budget for the entire state of Texas, which has one of the largest budgets of any state in the USA. If you still want to tell me that $15 billion is a shoestring budget, then you'd better start worrying more about what little the states have to work with and less about NASA. You have a warped perspective on this if you truly think $15 billion is not a lot of money.
(49% IIRC, but don't quote me on it)
It's closer to 25%, actually.
NASA operates on a shoestring budget
~ $15 Billion is quite a shoestring.
Yes and no - walmart.com, for example, has been in violation of the law for a long time if they haven't been collecting.
Wal-mart.com is not in violation because their online business is legally separate from the retail stores, thus not meeting the physical presence (nexus) rule that would require them to collect tax in every state.
Depending on the humidity and the season in your part of the country, you could very well be venting air with moisture into the walls. Also, think about when you turn the system off and you are left with highly varying temperatures between the insides and outsides of the wall. It would be very easy to have a moisture problem on one side of the wall and/or the other. Whether it occurs inside or outside the wall, which will depend on all of the variable conditions, it's still a potential problem.
It seems to me that venting the heat into your walls could cause condensation or other moisture problems inside of your walls. It also seems like you could get some very strange noises resulting from the forced air going into an enclosed space. The backpressure from exhausting into the wall could also shorten your fan life or possibly worse. If you have fire blocking in your walls, you could be blowing hot air into a space as little as 16" x 24" or so, and once that heats up you'll be getting the heat back into your room as it radiates through the drywall.
You also couldn't effectively use this on an exterior wall because insulation should be taking up all of the available air space inside the wall cavity anyway. Also, not all of the heat your computer generates is going to be exhausted by the fan, so this may not result in a huge reduction anyway, and it becomes even more problematic if you have more than one exhaust fan. Just a few thoughts I had.
I do tend to look for negative reviews as they're definitely not paid for!
Who's to say that negative reviews aren't also paid for? Paid for by, say, a competitor? Or they could be made up by a competitor's employees. Or they could be written by a third-party with an axe to grind for some unknown reason. Anything is possible, so one obviously needs to read all the reviews and make judgements on the reliability of both the good and the bad reviews.
Yep, I'm not buying stuff from those retailers again. Just think, if enough people do this, and hurt revenues, then corporations will recognize the stupidity of the DMCA and pressure congress to nullify it.
You need to tell them why you aren't buying from them anymore or they won't know why their sales are down... so be sure to send them some correspondance which indicates your reasons for buying from other places.
I think it's more likely that they are worried about consumers knowing how the prices are about to change.
It's a combination of things, obviously, of which competition, price fixing, price wars, and consumers' timing of purchases are some of the factors. Price wars can be extraordinarily damaging, as anyone who has followed the airlines historically knows. Also, competitive advantages are so short in the markets of today that even a temporary unmatched price advantage could be a huge boon to a particular retailer.
Whenever I check out the price comparison sites, I won't bother looking into a vendor that isn't listed or won't let itself be listed. Most people have a general idea of how much the item they are looking for will cost anyway. Based on that, you can usually find a great price from multiple people, so why bother looking up the prices of the few who won't be listed? It seems that they may lose sales from people like me who won't spend the extra time it would take to look them up individually.
As for how the DMCA relates to this, it's obviously just a way for the companies to make an excuse for delisting their prices. They think that not having the prices public will help them stay out of price wars or other competitive practices, but it's not like this would stop secret shoppers or anything.
They do allow for multiple remotes. My garage door opener, which uses the same technology, will allow for up to seven remotes. When you get a new remote, you must sync it with the opener unit before it will work by pressing button combinations on both the opener and the remote. Car alarms often work in a similar fashion.
Anyone notice that Excite [excite.com] is not allowing Mozilla users? I get this Error message [excite.com].
Funny - that message only told me that it didn't allow browsers with JavaScript and/or cookies disabled. It didn't mention a thing about Mozilla. Or are you telling us you have both JS and cookies enabled and that you still get that error message?
Hardware restrictions
A fast ethernet network switch
NO SCSI drives in nodes
A PXE bootable network card (intel / 3com)
A 3D accelerated video card for the virtual reality 3D engine
Seems a bit limiting - no SCSI drives?
(for some reason you made more pay if you worked second shift/overnight shift)
It's not odd. It's usually called Shift Differential Pay, and it is very common in hourly jobs. Nurses, policemen, firemen, 911 operators, etc. all get the extra pay in order to compensate them for not being able to live a "regular" lifestyle because they are working in the middle of the night or other odd hours.
Bad for you. Let us not forget our Korean friend that died after playing EverQuest for 80 hours straight. Our human bodies are simply not made for that kind of exertion.
While I agree that you shouldn't sit in one place working on a computer for such an extended period, I would add that our bodies were made for exertion - not for sitting on our backsides all day - and that a lack of regular exercise and/or breaks is also a contributor to physical/mental problems.
In short - long sessions of physical inactivity of any form are bad for you, whether that be watching TV all day or coding all night.
Can you imagine having to try to figure out what sales tax to charge and who to forward the payment on to if local/state governments are allowed to tax online sales? Not only do you have to contend with different rates for different localities, but you have to mess with different exemptions and ways of classifying products for tax purposes. This will kill the small online merchants in a heartbeat.
The Streamlined Sales Tax Project, currently underway with leaders from half of the states, would set a standard rate for all Internet sales of goods, with the possibility of a second rate for foods. This would eliminate the problem of differing rates based on localities, as the states would agree to accept the same rate.
More information about the SSTP can be found here.
What was fun was no longer as I started to get automated emails reminding me of some trivial bureaucratic hurdle I must needs soon complete.
So, you did get that memo about your TPS reports, then?
I would tend to think that sub captains, XO's, etc. would still be somewhat like a fighter pilot in terms of their ego, but I see your point about the crew not necessarily caring too much. Thanks for the clarification.
The Navy however, has no figher pilot equivalent.
No fighter pilot equivalent? What are all those aircraft carriers for, then? Or do I misunderstand your point?
If you don't want to take the door off, use either vents or fans. Pre-made vents and fans specifically for entertainment centers are available from several suppliers, including this one.
Try these vents, or these, or these. Put some vents at the bottom and some at the top along the sides or the rear wall and the case will draw cool air from the bottom while the heat rises out of the top vents. If you need still more cooling, add a power fan which includes a dust filter.
to waxing the windows on the outside so that rain just streaks away from your field of view in the rain (you should try it - you hardly need to turn on the windshield wipers in lighter rains).
You should really try Rain-X - it works the way you want it to and wipers do not pose a problem.
The Corvette Office Chair
If the two parties are in different states, no sales tax applies.
That is incorrect in most, if not all, states. You are still obligated to pay the sales tax, but you must declare it yourself and send it in to your state taxing entity yourself.
Currently, an online business does not have to collect a sales tax from you in an online transaction, unless they have a physical presence in your state. Just because they are not collecting the tax for you does not remove your obligation to pay it - you can, in fact, face penalties for not sending the taxes in yourself, but so far those penalties have only been applied to purchases with large dollar amounts often involving jewelry or high-dollar art.
It is a common misconception.
(however, the Streamlined Sales Tax may soon bring many states into a single sales tax structure for online purchases, at which point the online merchant will collect the taxes even if they do not have a physical presence in a participating SST state, and that will remove your obligation to send the taxes in yourself since you will have paid them at the point of purchase)
Incorrect.
All government developed software is *NOT* public domain.
The AC is right on this one - all government-developed software is most assuredly not PD.