It should be pointed out that CHRISTian means a follower of Christ, not an adherent to the old Jewish law.
"I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
If the sex trade would be more regulated, prostitutes wouldn't have to divvy up half their money to "pimps". They'd be in safer, healthier environments that take less commission.
(BTW, I hate prostitution but I don't want to legislate morality or condemn the people who choose the wrong choice here to jail for a victimless, besides themselves, crime or become and stay perpetual dregs of society with no hope for the future.)
I prefer German's white wine in the baden region and baking from Munich/Salzberg. As for engineering, I think Germany's contributions are significant (a lot of the different combustion engines designs, etc) As for the rest, not really sure why this pissing contest is even important.
In a world where NASA hasn't been able to get really good funding since the moon landings, are you really going to criticize a guy over a sponsor whose greatest crime is trying to sell you bling bling?
Not really. AC was the answer to how to transport electricity long distances.
Currently, it is still converted to DC in a huge amount of devices, in the computer at the PSU. Few devices use AC iirc, something like a fan/ceiling fan probably has an AC motor because a DC motor would slice your finger off if you decided to play with the blades. So, the question then just remains how to optimize the point of conversion. It's rather like the electric car-fossil-fuel-electric-plant/gasoline car debate: have a bunch of small inefficient combustion engines or a large efficient one but deal with transport losses (along with a bunch of other issues).
In this case, just where along the line do you convert the AC to DC. Since DC can't really travel far at all without significant losses, I guess that would be at the rack level?
In other words: "I'm fine getting screwed in the ass when the stuff I paid for no longer plays, just so I can appear reasonable to paranoid and greedy corporations."
Have fun in 20 years in your DRM future, when everything is under lock and key. Hell, with android's face recognition, it won't be long before you're the only one who can read the article in the magazines/newspapers you subscribe to and if you hand it to someone else the screen will go blank.
Thanks. So the last decade saw $6.71 in dividend (which includes a monster one-time dividen of $3.08 in 2004 for whatever reason). Worse than I even thought, and not looking good.
It's about $.80 per share per year now. Idk where to look for past dividend payouts, but figuring this is steady, the past decade it comes to $8 a share, about 1/3 of it's price.
Now, I don't fee like calculating what if the early shares were reinvested, someone else can do that, so I'll stop the calculation theres, but at the surface, 33% growth over a decade isn't exactly encouraging.
Exactly. Just like the whitehouse.gov vs whitehouse.com from years ago.
Just let it go. Snapping up every permutation is a fool's game. Search engines made the whole domain thing largely superfluous to the layperson anyway and the technical person knows his way around.
At a market price at $3,500, it will take on Segway nicely. Still, the vast majority of people can get a bike for ~$100 and achieve similiar speeds. Even if they were to step up, it would be likely to some electric bike rather than one of these.
If I really was hot for personal transport of this sort, a Sym Symba (quality Honda Cub knockoff) can at least achieve $50 and isn't much bigger, plus a $1k less. Gas powered though.
When I was 16, I was thinking there has a market for an ultra small car, 1 passenger, if they can get it here for less than $5k or so. Just a town roundabout. Something that could achieve highway speeds but not much higher, like say 90mph, and any trunk space is minimal. When I see high school parking lots throughout the country with these big (sometimes initially expensive) clunkers.
The Kindle Fire is $200 the iPad starts at $500 and goes up to $830. They are competing at different levels of the market. And Apple's hardware margin is about 50% while Amazon's is around 10%. Which means people are getting a better hardware value.
If this was a desktop computer, I would agree with you, but completely integrated (mobile) products are more than just the sum of their components. Most consumers don't care about "hardware value" then as such, although the lower price might be attractive. I never used a Kindle Fire, so I don't have an opinion either way.
I heard the ability to learn language degrades quickly already after the age of 10 or so. Not sure if it's true. I noticed the best way to learn a language is to be immersed in it, and the internet is kinda double edged, because back 20+ years ago, someone could go to a foreign country and be truly isolated from their native language except for a book/magazine that would get old quickly. With the internet, I imagine people would be heavily tempted (or required) to keep referring back to their parent language and use that as a crutch.
Unrelated, but how do you like living in Japan? I always hear it's gaijin unfriendly, but is there any way to "advance" or as a westerner, will you be permanently stuck into "English-teacher" or other role?
I don't think your parent post is suggesting we should be able to understand the system as a whole, so as voters, we can make demand necessary changes to make it work for us. Not that we have to understand the internal functioning of each individual node.
My first temptation was to scoff and say this is the digital age, why print them out.
Then I remembered 2 years ago, I got my dad this sony dyesub (Sony DPP-FP95, I think 97 is the newest). It prints pics perfectly, as good as the store. And because it's dyesub, it's superior to inkjet in every way: the dots blend together and aren't discrete, it has a clearcoat so no smudging, and the toner is dry on plastic so no printhead to dry out after a period of nonuse. It's the first digital gadget he really uses and actually loves: after every damn trip he sits down and make pics after pics. I know, I get sent a packet every so often with the sony branding.
If this polaroid is the same way, good on them. I can barely keep my digital pics organized, I don't expect older people to really grok photo organizing software either.
a) Younger people accept change faster. In the early 20th Century, Physics was fundamentally changing for the first time since Newton came onto the scene. It's often said that scientific revolutions are less the revolution part and more that acceptance comes as the older, unaccepting generations die out. Einstein himself was out of the game by quantum mechanics because he refuse to accept it.
So maybe the previously young age has less to do with mental agility of age and more about locking yourself into a preconceived box. Of course, science can have only so many revolutions, and as it shifts to evolutions, experience and age will start winning out... until the next revolution.
b) Younger people used to have less familial commitments. They often still do. Means more free time to devote to breakthroughs. But as the last century progress, people are definitely having less and less kids, and divorce is also on the rise - so older people may get the same benefits, time-wise....
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Why did cars start out looking like horseless carriages?
"I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
Sounds like Jesus was for the Old Testament.
If the sex trade would be more regulated, prostitutes wouldn't have to divvy up half their money to "pimps". They'd be in safer, healthier environments that take less commission.
(BTW, I hate prostitution but I don't want to legislate morality or condemn the people who choose the wrong choice here to jail for a victimless, besides themselves, crime or become and stay perpetual dregs of society with no hope for the future.)
It's actually pretty ingenious invention for the tl;dr generation.
When Amazon controls that much of the market and takes that big of a cut (really, how do they justify that?), they ARE setting the price upwards.
I prefer German's white wine in the baden region and baking from Munich/Salzberg. As for engineering, I think Germany's contributions are significant (a lot of the different combustion engines designs, etc) As for the rest, not really sure why this pissing contest is even important.
Unless it rose 50% since April, gas price in Germany is around $8.30.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/shocking-gas-prices-globe/story?id=13349235#.TtcsvXM4MUM
In a world where NASA hasn't been able to get really good funding since the moon landings, are you really going to criticize a guy over a sponsor whose greatest crime is trying to sell you bling bling?
When will lawsuits cease to exist?
Not really. AC was the answer to how to transport electricity long distances.
Currently, it is still converted to DC in a huge amount of devices, in the computer at the PSU. Few devices use AC iirc, something like a fan/ceiling fan probably has an AC motor because a DC motor would slice your finger off if you decided to play with the blades. So, the question then just remains how to optimize the point of conversion. It's rather like the electric car-fossil-fuel-electric-plant/gasoline car debate: have a bunch of small inefficient combustion engines or a large efficient one but deal with transport losses (along with a bunch of other issues).
In this case, just where along the line do you convert the AC to DC. Since DC can't really travel far at all without significant losses, I guess that would be at the rack level?
Don't forget beamtenbeleidigung.
Insult any bureacrat, multi-thousand euro fine.
Germany is still a police state.
In other words: "I'm fine getting screwed in the ass when the stuff I paid for no longer plays, just so I can appear reasonable to paranoid and greedy corporations."
Have fun in 20 years in your DRM future, when everything is under lock and key. Hell, with android's face recognition, it won't be long before you're the only one who can read the article in the magazines/newspapers you subscribe to and if you hand it to someone else the screen will go blank.
Thanks. So the last decade saw $6.71 in dividend (which includes a monster one-time dividen of $3.08 in 2004 for whatever reason). Worse than I even thought, and not looking good.
http://dividend.com/dividend-stocks/technology/application-software/msft-microsoft/
It's about $.80 per share per year now. Idk where to look for past dividend payouts, but figuring this is steady, the past decade it comes to $8 a share, about 1/3 of it's price.
Now, I don't fee like calculating what if the early shares were reinvested, someone else can do that, so I'll stop the calculation theres, but at the surface, 33% growth over a decade isn't exactly encouraging.
Eminent domain.
Kelo v. City of New London decision.
Asset forfeiture (especially coupled with drug excuse).
Exactly. Just like the whitehouse.gov vs whitehouse.com from years ago.
Just let it go. Snapping up every permutation is a fool's game. Search engines made the whole domain thing largely superfluous to the layperson anyway and the technical person knows his way around.
Depends on the state and if you're climbing hills, where the real top speed is much lower than on flat ground.
At a market price at $3,500, it will take on Segway nicely. Still, the vast majority of people can get a bike for ~$100 and achieve similiar speeds. Even if they were to step up, it would be likely to some electric bike rather than one of these.
If I really was hot for personal transport of this sort, a Sym Symba (quality Honda Cub knockoff) can at least achieve $50 and isn't much bigger, plus a $1k less. Gas powered though.
When I was 16, I was thinking there has a market for an ultra small car, 1 passenger, if they can get it here for less than $5k or so. Just a town roundabout. Something that could achieve highway speeds but not much higher, like say 90mph, and any trunk space is minimal. When I see high school parking lots throughout the country with these big (sometimes initially expensive) clunkers.
If this was a desktop computer, I would agree with you, but completely integrated (mobile) products are more than just the sum of their components. Most consumers don't care about "hardware value" then as such, although the lower price might be attractive. I never used a Kindle Fire, so I don't have an opinion either way.
Whatever makes you think she is a good manager?
I heard the ability to learn language degrades quickly already after the age of 10 or so. Not sure if it's true. I noticed the best way to learn a language is to be immersed in it, and the internet is kinda double edged, because back 20+ years ago, someone could go to a foreign country and be truly isolated from their native language except for a book/magazine that would get old quickly. With the internet, I imagine people would be heavily tempted (or required) to keep referring back to their parent language and use that as a crutch.
Unrelated, but how do you like living in Japan? I always hear it's gaijin unfriendly, but is there any way to "advance" or as a westerner, will you be permanently stuck into "English-teacher" or other role?
I don't think your parent post is suggesting we should be able to understand the system as a whole, so as voters, we can make demand necessary changes to make it work for us. Not that we have to understand the internal functioning of each individual node.
My first temptation was to scoff and say this is the digital age, why print them out.
Then I remembered 2 years ago, I got my dad this sony dyesub (Sony DPP-FP95, I think 97 is the newest). It prints pics perfectly, as good as the store. And because it's dyesub, it's superior to inkjet in every way: the dots blend together and aren't discrete, it has a clearcoat so no smudging, and the toner is dry on plastic so no printhead to dry out after a period of nonuse. It's the first digital gadget he really uses and actually loves: after every damn trip he sits down and make pics after pics. I know, I get sent a packet every so often with the sony branding.
If this polaroid is the same way, good on them. I can barely keep my digital pics organized, I don't expect older people to really grok photo organizing software either.
Maybe it has more to do with 2 things:
a) Younger people accept change faster. In the early 20th Century, Physics was fundamentally changing for the first time since Newton came onto the scene. It's often said that scientific revolutions are less the revolution part and more that acceptance comes as the older, unaccepting generations die out. Einstein himself was out of the game by quantum mechanics because he refuse to accept it.
So maybe the previously young age has less to do with mental agility of age and more about locking yourself into a preconceived box. Of course, science can have only so many revolutions, and as it shifts to evolutions, experience and age will start winning out... until the next revolution.
b) Younger people used to have less familial commitments. They often still do. Means more free time to devote to breakthroughs. But as the last century progress, people are definitely having less and less kids, and divorce is also on the rise - so older people may get the same benefits, time-wise....
You mad, bro?