"They" used to say two months' salary. I think that is an awful way to spend two or now three months' salary.
Funny at the time was when I was shopping for rings. I asked the question of the sales lady whether that guideline was pretax salary or posttax. She didn't answer, but she started showing me rings that were about 2 weeks' salary.
My wife would have killed me if I would have blown $15,000 on her engagement ring. I spent about $500 on it, and that was a big splurge.
And what a big mistake that would have been. If I would have blown 15k on her engagement ring, we couldn't have made the down payment on our house, which has since doubled in value.
I was opening up a paypal dispute last year and following through the process. I couldn't even go through the process without my session timing out. I had to copy/paste my responses to all the questions into vi and copy/paste them back in in order to get through the process without timing out.
If there was a specific point in there, I totally missed it.
Are you saying that in the US, coroners are prone to voilate medical ethics by lying to the family of the deceased about the cause of death when they suspect suicide? I'd love to see a source for that wild speculation. I'm going to happily assume the source to be "gnasher719's ass" until you provide a linky.
By the way, life insurance typically does pay out on a suicide after the policy has been in force for a minimum of two years. Therefore, I'm going to happily ignore what you wrote about life insurance because you are simply misinformed on that point.
Yes, they are. Using your own source, the suicide rate in Japan is the 11th-highest of the 100 countries listed. As a point of comparison, the US is 44th. Again, from your own source, the average suicide rate between males and females in the US is 10.85 per 100,000, while the average in Japan is 25.3 per 100,000 (roughly 2.5x the US rate).
So, yes, Japan has a notoriously high general suicide rate. You disagreed with GP by pointing out that Kazakhstan and a handfull of other countries have higher rates than Japan, but that hardly refutes GP's assertion that Japan has a notoriously high suicide rate.
Any idiot can understand that a 9 month turnaround on a RAM upgrade is unacceptable. Get your bigwigs to talk to their bigwigs and iron this thing out.
the majority of men would like a wife who does all the domestic work
That is a load of crap. If my wife is vacuuming the floor, that means that she is not on her knees sucking my cock. I long-since hired some other bitch to vacuum the floor under the assumption that my wife would prefer that to me hiring some other bitch to suck my cock.
the only reason any of them would be looked at even twice if they were to, say, go shopping in the center of my city tomorrow was because it doesn't fit to the damn cold.
I dunno, man. The last time I was in Hamburg, there were naked people walking around in public, all right. Too bad they were all 90-year-old men.
You know, this is why I love slashdot. You can have somebody whose only exposure to Thailand is peeking in the window of the Tara Thai restaurant in Akron, Ohio telling you that you've fabricated a story about the wonderful Land of Smiles.
I hereby sentence you to shut the fuck up until such time as you have actually left your home state to travel somewhere.
Yes, Thai bar girls really can shoot ping-pong balls from their pussies. They can also smoke a cigarette, suck in a bottle of Coke, and operate chopsticks, among other stupid pussy tricks.
Seriously. And just so you know, "networking" means, "calling everybody you know or have known and let them know that you are available." Start with people with whom you have worked in the past.
That is what I have always done since, like yourself, I am experienced. It has never failed, and it has never taken more than a week.
The next most frequent users are moms, pops and their kids at home visiting numerous sites for homework (read "plagiarism"), sports news and recipes. (And if you don't understand that dimension of browser users then get up out of your chairs, walk down the street and do a door-to-door survey of people in your neighbourhood.)
I understand that "dimension" (doesn't the word dimension mean something else?) very well. My wife and I just had a kid. We take many pictures and videos of kid. I would love a pointy clicky way to share these media files with my family that they can easily understand and use.
Right now, I can basically burn a DVD for my parents, but what about everyone else who wants to see some videos of the new kid? For me, it's easy, I just throw them up on my webpage, but what about my 10 cousins who also had kids last year? They're out of luck with no way to share stuff. There is no way they are going to be able to figure out how to set up a bittorrent tracker, set up a webpage, etc. Just not gonna happen.
This plugin might solve the problem of people who are not technically savvy who have media to share, but no way to share it.
They don't do free monitoring, but if you're willing to do the legwork of monitoring yourself, you can monitor your credit file yourself, free of charge. clicky
The Wednesday agreement marks a tidal shift among GOP leaders who have fervently resisted Democratic offers to temporarily extend the act so it could be revisited.
At least one Democrat applauded the new Republican sentiment.
In a statement calling the extension a "victory for the American people" because it strikes a balance between security and privacy concerns, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said Congress now has time to "get the Patriot Act right."
"I'm glad the president and Republican leaders have agreed with Democrats that we needed an extension," he said. "There's a right way and a wrong way to mend the Patriot Act. The wrong way is to force senators to cast their votes on legislation written in the middle of the night. The right way is the agreement we have tonight."
Looks to me like it was the Republicans who caved on this one.
From those facts, I can safely conclude that blocking all incoming email from China will reduce my spam load without causing any collateral damage. That the spam came from the US to the US by way of China is totally irrelevant.
I have to say I hate math, too. I found it to be both hard and useless. I failed Calc II and Calc III. Incidentally, my wife is much better at math than I am.
If it makes you feel any better, in the 5 years since I graduated, I have not once used calculus. But pay attention during linear algebra. Good luck on your final tomorrow.
I have never had to wait more than 48 hours to see a specialist in the Washington DC area. As far as MRIs go, which is a serious problem in Canada, I can get in for a non-emergency MRI within 5 hours. YMMV.
Lately, I've been using JBidWatcher. It has a multi-tab interface like firefox, so you can group auctions that way, automatic periodic searches, and the multisnipe functionality that I was describing. It'll even warn you if you attempt to do a "dangerous" multisnipe where the software wouldn't be able to determine if you won one auction before it had to bid on the next for you.
Oh, and it's OSS, of course. I run it on Linux, but I'm told it works fine on Windows as well.
I'm sure there are many other good ones out there. You may want to do a test snipe to make sure the software is actively maintained (ebay changes their HTML pages from time to time) and see how quickly your software can reliably do a snipe over your internet connection. You'll feel pretty stupid if your software and connection takes 3 seconds to execute a snipe and you set it to snipe with 1 second remaining.:-)
of the phenomenon that you mention. That people don't enter their maximum price when they bid like they are supposed to.
Instead, they follow one of the following models:
The emotional bidder: Bidding is war to this person. He bids and each time he is outbid he bids some more. He gets so caught up in the bidding that he doesn't realize he's paying 150% of retail for a used item and 200% of what he thought he was willing to spend on the item at all.
Sniping helps deal with this problem by not allowing an emotional bidder to raise his bid once he is outbid. If he had truly entered his max bid like he was supposed to, and if his max bid is more than my snipe, then he's winning the auction anyway. But if he failed to correctly identify his max bid and my snipe is higher than what he entered, then I win and he can't get emotional about it. He should have bid properly to begin with.
The minimum bidder: This person bids the minimum, gets outbid by the proxy system, bids the minimum again, and again, and again... then gives up. This drives up the price of the item unnecessarily, because the bidder was never serious to begin with.
Sniping helps deal with this problem by not revealing my bid until it is too late for the minimum bidder to do his minimum bid cycle. He should have bid properly and entered his maximum bid into ebay, if he wanted to win. Instead, he just raises the price for me, which is not preferable.
However, the biggest advantage to sniping has nothing to do with other bidders at all.
Let's say that I want to buy a commodity item like a 1GB SD memory card. There are many auctions for such an item, which retails for about $60. Let's assume that I want to pay no more than $40 (~35% discount), but most auctions close for $45-50. Realize that there are hundreds and hundreds of auctions for 1GB SD cards, most of them end within one or two minutes of each other.
How do you expect me to get my $40 SD card? I can't bid on one auction with 3 hours to go because I'll miss hundreds of auctions that close before the one that I bid on. And I can't bid on any of those hundreds of auctions that close earlier, because how will I know if I won the first auction? It hasn't closed yet! And I certainly do not need 2 SD cards. Just one. I can't even bid on an auction that closes in 10 minutes for the same problem.
With sniping software, I group all the 1GB SD card auctions together, give it a maximum price including shipping, and then let it bid for me in the final seconds. It can see whether I won or not and if I won, it will quit bidding. If I lost, it will bid on the next one, and the next one, and the next one... until I win or realize that my price is too low and bump it up.
I'm sorry if you think that I should sit in front of the ebay website all day and compulsively bid on each SD card auction, but I'm too busy compulsively hitting reload on the slashdot homepage, trying to get the coveted first post.
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Funny at the time was when I was shopping for rings. I asked the question of the sales lady whether that guideline was pretax salary or posttax. She didn't answer, but she started showing me rings that were about 2 weeks' salary.
And what a big mistake that would have been. If I would have blown 15k on her engagement ring, we couldn't have made the down payment on our house, which has since doubled in value.
Thank god I found a woman who "gets it".
I think the more important question is what he was doing spending $15,000 on an engagement ring. That's a lot of money to waste on a piece of jewelry.
I was opening up a paypal dispute last year and following through the process. I couldn't even go through the process without my session timing out. I had to copy/paste my responses to all the questions into vi and copy/paste them back in in order to get through the process without timing out.
fsfs is now the default repository format. It is considered to be ready for prime time. You can safely switch.
Are you saying that in the US, coroners are prone to voilate medical ethics by lying to the family of the deceased about the cause of death when they suspect suicide? I'd love to see a source for that wild speculation. I'm going to happily assume the source to be "gnasher719's ass" until you provide a linky.
By the way, life insurance typically does pay out on a suicide after the policy has been in force for a minimum of two years. Therefore, I'm going to happily ignore what you wrote about life insurance because you are simply misinformed on that point.
So, yeah, what was your point there, big guy?
So, yes, Japan has a notoriously high general suicide rate. You disagreed with GP by pointing out that Kazakhstan and a handfull of other countries have higher rates than Japan, but that hardly refutes GP's assertion that Japan has a notoriously high suicide rate.
Any idiot can understand that a 9 month turnaround on a RAM upgrade is unacceptable. Get your bigwigs to talk to their bigwigs and iron this thing out.
<shudder>
I hereby sentence you to shut the fuck up until such time as you have actually left your home state to travel somewhere.
Enjoy!
And before you ask, yes, I have seen it done.
That is what I have always done since, like yourself, I am experienced. It has never failed, and it has never taken more than a week.
Good luck out there!
HTH. HAND.
Right now, I can basically burn a DVD for my parents, but what about everyone else who wants to see some videos of the new kid? For me, it's easy, I just throw them up on my webpage, but what about my 10 cousins who also had kids last year? They're out of luck with no way to share stuff. There is no way they are going to be able to figure out how to set up a bittorrent tracker, set up a webpage, etc. Just not gonna happen.
This plugin might solve the problem of people who are not technically savvy who have media to share, but no way to share it.
Killer app? No.
Useful? We'll see when it's not longer vaporware.
They don't do free monitoring, but if you're willing to do the legwork of monitoring yourself, you can monitor your credit file yourself, free of charge. clicky
All of my Linux boxes work, yet I never had to pay for Debian or Gentoo. Why can't software that I paid for work properly?
Ok, done venting. Thanks for that.
Wake up, dickhead.
- Much spam is routed through China.
- I do not correspond with anyone in China.
From those facts, I can safely conclude that blocking all incoming email from China will reduce my spam load without causing any collateral damage. That the spam came from the US to the US by way of China is totally irrelevant.If it makes you feel any better, in the 5 years since I graduated, I have not once used calculus. But pay attention during linear algebra. Good luck on your final tomorrow.
How much does a solar cell and a battery cost these days? I'm guessing less than US$44,240.
I have never had to wait more than 48 hours to see a specialist in the Washington DC area. As far as MRIs go, which is a serious problem in Canada, I can get in for a non-emergency MRI within 5 hours. YMMV.
Oh, and it's OSS, of course. I run it on Linux, but I'm told it works fine on Windows as well.
I'm sure there are many other good ones out there. You may want to do a test snipe to make sure the software is actively maintained (ebay changes their HTML pages from time to time) and see how quickly your software can reliably do a snipe over your internet connection. You'll feel pretty stupid if your software and connection takes 3 seconds to execute a snipe and you set it to snipe with 1 second remaining. :-)
Instead, they follow one of the following models:
- The emotional bidder: Bidding is war to this person. He bids and each time he is outbid he bids some more. He gets so caught up in the bidding that he doesn't realize he's paying 150% of retail for a used item and 200% of what he thought he was willing to spend on the item at all.
- The minimum bidder: This person bids the minimum, gets outbid by the proxy system, bids the minimum again, and again, and again... then gives up. This drives up the price of the item unnecessarily, because the bidder was never serious to begin with.
However, the biggest advantage to sniping has nothing to do with other bidders at all.Sniping helps deal with this problem by not allowing an emotional bidder to raise his bid once he is outbid. If he had truly entered his max bid like he was supposed to, and if his max bid is more than my snipe, then he's winning the auction anyway. But if he failed to correctly identify his max bid and my snipe is higher than what he entered, then I win and he can't get emotional about it. He should have bid properly to begin with.
Sniping helps deal with this problem by not revealing my bid until it is too late for the minimum bidder to do his minimum bid cycle. He should have bid properly and entered his maximum bid into ebay, if he wanted to win. Instead, he just raises the price for me, which is not preferable.
Let's say that I want to buy a commodity item like a 1GB SD memory card. There are many auctions for such an item, which retails for about $60. Let's assume that I want to pay no more than $40 (~35% discount), but most auctions close for $45-50. Realize that there are hundreds and hundreds of auctions for 1GB SD cards, most of them end within one or two minutes of each other.
How do you expect me to get my $40 SD card? I can't bid on one auction with 3 hours to go because I'll miss hundreds of auctions that close before the one that I bid on. And I can't bid on any of those hundreds of auctions that close earlier, because how will I know if I won the first auction? It hasn't closed yet! And I certainly do not need 2 SD cards. Just one. I can't even bid on an auction that closes in 10 minutes for the same problem.
With sniping software, I group all the 1GB SD card auctions together, give it a maximum price including shipping, and then let it bid for me in the final seconds. It can see whether I won or not and if I won, it will quit bidding. If I lost, it will bid on the next one, and the next one, and the next one... until I win or realize that my price is too low and bump it up.
I'm sorry if you think that I should sit in front of the ebay website all day and compulsively bid on each SD card auction, but I'm too busy compulsively hitting reload on the slashdot homepage, trying to get the coveted first post.