You forgot the retail store's profitability. Given that a retail store has to be open every time it wants to sell something, and has to pay salaries and rent whether it sells or not, a typical retail markup of goods is 50-100%. (My father-in-law is in the clothing industry, and yes, he gets my wife clothing at half the price of the boutiques. It's great, if you don't mind buying all your clothes from one manufacturer, not trying anything on before you buy, and not returning anything if it doesn't fit. Incidentally, if you shop at the boutique-y stores, and find a label you like, find out who their sales rep for your territory is. If you're a man with a 16 or 16.5 neck and 34 length, and a 34 waist, most of the reps run "sample sales" of their old samples at these prices or less. Women's are generally size 6 or 8.) This is lower in industries where people can't try for free and can't return stuff they don't like (e.g., groceries), but a record store is going to need that markup. Voila, the $12.49 CD, which takes a whopping surplus of about 5 cents from that figure you gave.
The US nuclear arsenal could pretty well end war in Iraq, just as it could conveniently end problems lots of other places. Of course, it would also end life in Iraq. Contrary to the visions of the wilder fringes of the Internet, we're not genocidal bastards. If we were, things would be much simpler.
Just because we've decided we're too civilized to kill populations en masse doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
If you doubt any of parent's statement, listen to this. This American Life interviewed some real professional poker players, who play nightly and keep their lives financed by milking the out-of-town businessmen who think they can play poker.
Sprint does the same in PR and USVI; I suspect all the major carriers do. Sprint and VZW actually have a small advantage, in that you can't accidentally pick up GSM signals from the BVI's and get stuck with roaming charges.
And having maneuvered this far off topic, what do you recommend doing in the VI? Wife and I spent a week at Pavilions and Pools on the east end of St Thomas, buying groceries at Red Hook and spending the evenings with each other. We weren't really looking for night life, but I'm always open to good ideas.
How long ago was this? I just went to T-mob in August, and have been fairly impressed with the coverage I get. It's certainly better than my wife's Sprint coverage, at least in the rural areas we've traveled through. (We have different carriers because I barely use the phone, so I bought a prepaid.)
Just because your hands are too small for the original Xbox controller doesn't mean everyone's are. By the time you get down into DualShock territory, it's too small for me to hold as intended - so that using the shoulder buttons is difficult and painful.
Anybody know about Markey's future career plans? Pickering has already declared he's not running for reelection this fall; he's a lame duck. (Yes, he's quitting to "spend more time with his family". No, I don't know what the dirt on him really is.)
I'm not unhappy to see him sponsoring the bill - he's my Congresscritter - but he's not going to be around next year, so he doesn't have a lot of votes left to swap support for.
Actually, a two-McDonalds town gives me a pretty clear idea of how big you are. I would guess your state still has some of the Nixon-era "certificate of need" crap going for health care facilities - they can't open new hospital beds until they can show that there is a "need" in the community for them, which mostly means that the existing hospitals can keep new ones from opening.
Eighty hours a week is rough. So what? Not providing for your kids is bullshit. Expecting me to do so via taxes is just an excuse to be lazy.
I haven't seen Sicko, so I'm not sure what lesson I'm supposed to draw. I work - as I said - 50 to 60 hours a week, occasionally more, almost never less. I've been doing so for five years, and expect to do so for another thirty. Broadly speaking, people who punch a clock for 40 hours a week go nowhere fast. It is very American of me, but then there's a reason Americans are rich: we work. A lot.
You know, I'm pretty sympathetic to those who have suffered real setbacks in life through no fault of their own. But the overwhelming majority of people in the situation you describe are there because they didn't plan ahead.
$11 an hour is $22k/yr if you only work 40 hours a week. If you don't have prospects for earning more than that, you have no business having kids. If you do end up having one, get a second (or third) job. There's no reason you can't deliver pizza at night and do Home Depot on the weekends. I work 50-60 hours a week on average, and I still tutor high school students at night and on my free days.
Oh, it's easy to tap a knee. You could learn it in a trice. Of course, the first time you get one infected that way, and you find yourself up in front of a jury saying "No, I'm not an orthopedic surgeon...", you might regret it.
I skipped the part where we notice that the animal is exhibiting abnormal behavior and test it for BSE. There is, of course, the need for several years to pass before this occurs - but that risk is present already, in that there is no way we will ever find a spontaneous mutation resulting in the same problem in a breeding bull until it is well-spread through the population. In the case of cloning, we will be taking an adult animal - one that presumably does not have the mutation, as evidenced by its lack of BSE behaviors. The kind of DNA damage resulting from cloning is of the deletion rather than missense variety. The proteins don't work, and the animal doesn't live, rather than producing proteins that assume odd (and bad) conformations.
So yes, you're right that altered DNA can lead to problems, but cloning causes a different kind of DNA damage - one that might be better described as failsafe (if it's not right, nothing works, no food produced). BTW I was quibbling with you when you disagreed with "[y]our stomach and small intestine have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the quality of food's DNA". I submit that they couldn't care less what the DNA is; prion diseases are, as they say, a different kettle of fish.
It's Slashdot. Either they're raging Ron Paul megalibertarians who have never heard of human nature, or hemp-obsessed lefties who think the whole world would be perfect if you just took money from everybody who had it and let them run things.
People with that level of wealth have opportunities that the average high-income professional (who isn't, generally, very wealthy) doesn't. As a doctor, I will certainly have a high income, but I have incurred significant debt to do so and won't earn more than a pittance until age 35 (yeah, I didn't go straight to med school from college). The situation is similar (though not quite as extreme) for a lot of lawyers - although our incomes are high, the tax system is very good at capturing income and doesn't seem to care that I spent eight years living on a shoestring in order to earn that money (I can't, for example, go back and retroactively fund my IRA for those eight years.).
If you have a billion dollars, though, you can pretty easily set up a nonprofit foundation that - oh so coincidentally - employs your descendants to do a lot of not very difficult jobs for rather more than competitive salaries. Maybe there can be foundation-owned housing they can live in rent-free - again, only available to family members. Once you own the properties, you'd be surprised how little it takes to live on.
Sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Using arguendo in a sentence, correctly, is not appropriate to this forum. Take your dirty Latin elsewhere.
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You forgot the retail store's profitability. Given that a retail store has to be open every time it wants to sell something, and has to pay salaries and rent whether it sells or not, a typical retail markup of goods is 50-100%. (My father-in-law is in the clothing industry, and yes, he gets my wife clothing at half the price of the boutiques. It's great, if you don't mind buying all your clothes from one manufacturer, not trying anything on before you buy, and not returning anything if it doesn't fit. Incidentally, if you shop at the boutique-y stores, and find a label you like, find out who their sales rep for your territory is. If you're a man with a 16 or 16.5 neck and 34 length, and a 34 waist, most of the reps run "sample sales" of their old samples at these prices or less. Women's are generally size 6 or 8.) This is lower in industries where people can't try for free and can't return stuff they don't like (e.g., groceries), but a record store is going to need that markup. Voila, the $12.49 CD, which takes a whopping surplus of about 5 cents from that figure you gave.
Just because we've decided we're too civilized to kill populations en masse doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
If you doubt any of parent's statement, listen to this. This American Life interviewed some real professional poker players, who play nightly and keep their lives financed by milking the out-of-town businessmen who think they can play poker.
Already done.
Although, given that this is /., I can almost certainly guarantee that it won't happen here.
And having maneuvered this far off topic, what do you recommend doing in the VI? Wife and I spent a week at Pavilions and Pools on the east end of St Thomas, buying groceries at Red Hook and spending the evenings with each other. We weren't really looking for night life, but I'm always open to good ideas.
How long ago was this? I just went to T-mob in August, and have been fairly impressed with the coverage I get. It's certainly better than my wife's Sprint coverage, at least in the rural areas we've traveled through. (We have different carriers because I barely use the phone, so I bought a prepaid.)
Ah. Sorry. Size tends to be the primary complaint.
Just because your hands are too small for the original Xbox controller doesn't mean everyone's are. By the time you get down into DualShock territory, it's too small for me to hold as intended - so that using the shoulder buttons is difficult and painful.
I'm not unhappy to see him sponsoring the bill - he's my Congresscritter - but he's not going to be around next year, so he doesn't have a lot of votes left to swap support for.
Actually, a two-McDonalds town gives me a pretty clear idea of how big you are. I would guess your state still has some of the Nixon-era "certificate of need" crap going for health care facilities - they can't open new hospital beds until they can show that there is a "need" in the community for them, which mostly means that the existing hospitals can keep new ones from opening.
Thanks. You didn't originally mention the impoverished-rural-area aspect. Makes sense now.
I haven't seen Sicko, so I'm not sure what lesson I'm supposed to draw. I work - as I said - 50 to 60 hours a week, occasionally more, almost never less. I've been doing so for five years, and expect to do so for another thirty. Broadly speaking, people who punch a clock for 40 hours a week go nowhere fast. It is very American of me, but then there's a reason Americans are rich: we work. A lot.
$11 an hour is $22k/yr if you only work 40 hours a week. If you don't have prospects for earning more than that, you have no business having kids. If you do end up having one, get a second (or third) job. There's no reason you can't deliver pizza at night and do Home Depot on the weekends. I work 50-60 hours a week on average, and I still tutor high school students at night and on my free days.
Straightforward and reasonable. Good luck selling it here.
Oh, it's easy to tap a knee. You could learn it in a trice. Of course, the first time you get one infected that way, and you find yourself up in front of a jury saying "No, I'm not an orthopedic surgeon...", you might regret it.
People wait 4-8 hours for care instead of driving 30 minutes?
Trying to provide for a family of four on $22k a year is stupid. Solution? Keep your clothes on until you have more money.
So, basically, you're not going to pay your own bills even if the cash is in your hand?
So yes, you're right that altered DNA can lead to problems, but cloning causes a different kind of DNA damage - one that might be better described as failsafe (if it's not right, nothing works, no food produced). BTW I was quibbling with you when you disagreed with "[y]our stomach and small intestine have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the quality of food's DNA". I submit that they couldn't care less what the DNA is; prion diseases are, as they say, a different kettle of fish.
But it's not spread by DNA, it's spread by protein. Read up on it.
So what's the steak-lover's steak?
It's Slashdot. Either they're raging Ron Paul megalibertarians who have never heard of human nature, or hemp-obsessed lefties who think the whole world would be perfect if you just took money from everybody who had it and let them run things.
If you have a billion dollars, though, you can pretty easily set up a nonprofit foundation that - oh so coincidentally - employs your descendants to do a lot of not very difficult jobs for rather more than competitive salaries. Maybe there can be foundation-owned housing they can live in rent-free - again, only available to family members. Once you own the properties, you'd be surprised how little it takes to live on.
Sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Using arguendo in a sentence, correctly, is not appropriate to this forum. Take your dirty Latin elsewhere.