Insurance is a super idea, if you will ever have clients visit. Check with your agent about an umbrella policy to protect you if they slip on your porch and sue for more than your homeowner's coverage. Umbrella policies are usually pretty cheap for what they do (they cover over and above your current insurance coverage usually 1-2 million, which with lost time, pain and suffering, and ever growing medical bills, damages could easily reach).
My favorite restaurant rule, is always put the cheapest thing first in the buffet. Check it out next time you are at a buffet, the cheapest things are almost always earlier on the buffet line. If you ever serve food in a line, note that the first thing is almost always gone, while the end of the line is usually hardly touched.
Loss leaders are a common part of retail marketing. Retailer's know that if they bring in shoppers with a few very inexpensive items, that we are likely to do all of our day's shopping there, at normal markups. So they occasionally sell things at or below their own costs. Go check the price of turkeys during the week before thanksgiving, and contrast that with the price of roses the week before Valentine's day. You only need the flowers on V day, chocholates aren't high enough margin to count, and most guys buying flowers aren't really gonna do much other shopping at the same time, but when you buy a turkey, your gonna need stuffing, potatoes, pie, cream, cranberries, and possibly wine, milk, bread, or a ton of other things, so they want to get you to their store with the low turkey prices.
If your video card sucks and won't play Quake III at anything more than 640x480, than buying a 21" trinitron isn't going to be much of an improvment over your 15" old standby monitor. But beggar's can't be choosers.:)
Actually I read the strip and only caught the meaning of it today, after it had been explained here. I read the notes, but didn't understand what they were talking about.
Oracle has a catchy ring to it, perhaps they could switch to that if firebird doesn't work. Possibly window, explore, or some other generic term if that doesn't work.
Headaches. Unless you come up with outside financing, it can take several hours of negotiations (time when a commissioned sales person could be completing the next sale) when you are working with them for the financing. Also I recall 2-3 people who were interested in purchasing my folk's last home, after a preliminary offer, because the buyer's couldn't secure financing or sell their own houses. The other places that give a cash discount are smaller shops (mom and pop type places, especially at the high end) that take credit cards, who are sometimes willing to knock a few percent off of your purchase for cash, since the credit card company will hit them up for 3%-4%. Amex and Discover are usually higher.
As much as I hate paying 5-10 for a tiny bit of "white metal" they do have a point. It is that part of the GW experience can be enhanced significantly by an active hobby shop. Things like teaching people how to play, organizing tournaments, teaching basic and advanced painting skills, and other things that help to introduce new players to the game and enhance the game for experienced players. Without these things coming from either a group of friends or a friendly hobby store, I doubt most of us would have ever picked up or kept going with the game. If enough people buy occasionally from the store to take advantage of their hobby building activities but buys the majority of their minis over the internet at steep discounts, they will eventually force the higher cost stores out of business. Games Workshop is trying to protect these higher cost, but beneficial stores from such ativities, that they own several of these high cost stores makes their actions look less savory, but they do have a valid concern. Although for areas that don't have a full service store, or no store at all, but do have a gaming club, the benefits should flow to the clubs, which serve the same purpose as an active hobby shop. I would suggest that they could organize in the form of a co-op and order wholesale.
From what I've read, the new side valves and lower turbo pressure should greatly improve reliability in the RX-8 over the RX-7. The old rotaries had point valves, which are cheap and easy but start to leak faster.
I don't know about ethics, but the tea is much nastier the second time around. Tea gives off tannins after it has been brewed too long, these tannins are what gives tea a very bitter flavor. If you are really interested in saving money get a tea ball and buy in bulk.
Oddly enough most of their recent profit has come from the interest on that mountain of cash. With interest rates down they earned about 120 million on their cash pile last year. They did significantly better in with the higher, but falling, rates of 2001 earning more than $150 million, prior to that they were getting about $250 million, when treasuries got about 4%-6%. They have roughly broken even on operating profit (earnings selling computers and software) for the past two years. The company has been treading water while they wait for a G5 level chip.
Vivendi has a whole lotta debt, it's north of 30 billion at the end of 2001, they haven't released figures for 2002, but probably still above 30 billion. That's why they are so interested in selling Universal, Blizzard, and their other assets and why Apple will get a pretty good deal on anything they buy. Apple would likely use around 4 billion from thier own cash stockpile, and either assume Vivendi debt, issue stock to Vivendi, or issue their own debt (expensive because investors don't see them ever really making a significant amount of profit in the near future) or equity (equity is unlikely, the company trades at roughly cash value) to pay cash, to finance the remander of the offer. It would be neat if they could really make this work, here's hoping for not too expensive distribution of mp4/aac encoded tracks.
Probably because 99% of/.ers could care less about a system that costs more than $50 and some parts they had in a box, but since most of the parts in the box come from AMD, they do care that Sun's rumored product uses parts that come from AMD.
MSNBC isn't that profitable, and GE doesn't like being third in anything they do. If the war had drug on, MSNBC would have likely begun the beginning of their end.
It was mostly partnerships that let you deduct losses against your income. Imagine a group of doctors that started a partnership to build their office building, they build it, pay rent to the partnership, claim a tax loss due to deprication and interest, and deduct the rent and loss from their business income, while recieving a cash payment from the partnership at the end of the year. This and other partnerships were what drove the real estate boom of the early eighties. Other investors built office buildings for the tax loss, without expecting any rentors. These investors forgot a very important rule of investing, "what congress giveth congress can taketh away." Congress retroactivly began taxing against Passive income generators, or these partnerships, which destroyed the whole reason for building them in the first place. Combined with the end of the energy crunch led to a tremendous downturn in real estate that lasted almost a decade in oil rich cities. Remember that next time someone starts selling you an investment based only on its tax advantages.
For tax puroposes you will want to devote a portion of you home for the office, with its own equipment. Also, keep meticulous records of your work related driving and other expenses. This will help to lower your tax bills significantly.
It was the secret behind many of the "Masters of the Universe" during the 80s. I know Milken started making his fortune by being one of the first to use calculators and later computers in his bond trading. It's a little amazing how primative the financial markets were in the late 70s and early 80s.
I find it ironic that the leader he didn't remember is Gen. Musharif of Pakistan, who became significantly more important in Pres. Bush's mind on September 12th.
My folks used to spend hours at the hardware store, and I would read the books, trying to find something interesting, one of the better books was about composting. The tips I remember well were:
Make sure you turn it regularly, the more air the faster it will compost.
Try to get a good mix of what the author classified as carbon rich, vegetables and other food wastes, with nitrogen rich plants, such as grass clippings leaves and others. It will work at 80/20 either way, but it will take longer, and the time decreases as you get closer to an equal mix.
Composting weeds is a huge waste of time, you need the pile to get very hot, to kill the seeds, and most of us just dont pay enough attention to the pile to keep it warm enough to kill em all.
If you live in a dry climate you might have to water the pile occasionally.
That's about all I remember, I think it should look pretty much like soil when you are finished, it won't be warm, or have any large particles. When it is done, it might have a slight plesant, earthy smell, too. If you get ammonia smells your pile has gone anerobic and needs to be turned more often. For your first pile don't put it near things that are flammable.
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Apples should be grafted onto vigorous root stock to get a good tree, you don't just want to plant an apple seed.
Why is it that Nissan sells so many really nice cars in Japan (Skylines Silvias and others, but never thought of bringing them to the US until very recently? I don't think I have ever heard of anyone who complained about a Skyline, but did we see them no. Good gravy people are paying high 5 and low 6 digit prices to import them, and finally get the idea to sell something made on the same platform to rave reviews (The 350Z and G35 are based on the same chassis as the new Skylines).
Any herbs you cook with will be much, much better fresh, and you will save a ton. Since you're getting started try to find things at the end of their planting season, as the garden stores clearnance them, then you won't feel bad if you kill them. An easy starter garden is catus and other desert succulents, since they can go a week or two without watering, nice when you want to take a trip occasionally, and don't want to find someone to water for you. Tropicals are fun and neat to, but like water almost daily, and prefer fertilization year round. If you don't mind spending some cash, you can get some nice dwarf fruit trees that are designed for the smaller plots of land, or city dwellings. Aloe is another easy to care for plant that has an excellent second use, its great for burns, cuts, scrapes, and other minor injuries (some people drink the juice, but its pretty pungent. I don't know too many geeks that don't like some of the odder things like venus fly traps, pitcher plants, or orchids. They can be a little more difficult to care for, but are usually quite rewarding. I keep my office filled with plants, its a wonderful excuse to keep the window shade opened, and really brightens the place up.
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Insurance is a super idea, if you will ever have clients visit. Check with your agent about an umbrella policy to protect you if they slip on your porch and sue for more than your homeowner's coverage. Umbrella policies are usually pretty cheap for what they do (they cover over and above your current insurance coverage usually 1-2 million, which with lost time, pain and suffering, and ever growing medical bills, damages could easily reach).
My favorite restaurant rule, is always put the cheapest thing first in the buffet. Check it out next time you are at a buffet, the cheapest things are almost always earlier on the buffet line. If you ever serve food in a line, note that the first thing is almost always gone, while the end of the line is usually hardly touched.
Loss leaders are a common part of retail marketing. Retailer's know that if they bring in shoppers with a few very inexpensive items, that we are likely to do all of our day's shopping there, at normal markups. So they occasionally sell things at or below their own costs. Go check the price of turkeys during the week before thanksgiving, and contrast that with the price of roses the week before Valentine's day. You only need the flowers on V day, chocholates aren't high enough margin to count, and most guys buying flowers aren't really gonna do much other shopping at the same time, but when you buy a turkey, your gonna need stuffing, potatoes, pie, cream, cranberries, and possibly wine, milk, bread, or a ton of other things, so they want to get you to their store with the low turkey prices.
If your video card sucks and won't play Quake III at anything more than 640x480, than buying a 21" trinitron isn't going to be much of an improvment over your 15" old standby monitor. But beggar's can't be choosers. :)
Actually I read the strip and only caught the meaning of it today, after it had been explained here. I read the notes, but didn't understand what they were talking about.
Oracle has a catchy ring to it, perhaps they could switch to that if firebird doesn't work. Possibly window, explore, or some other generic term if that doesn't work.
I loved the TV series, but I think I was four during its big run. That and the FallGuy were all I ever watched then.
Headaches. Unless you come up with outside financing, it can take several hours of negotiations (time when a commissioned sales person could be completing the next sale) when you are working with them for the financing. Also I recall 2-3 people who were interested in purchasing my folk's last home, after a preliminary offer, because the buyer's couldn't secure financing or sell their own houses. The other places that give a cash discount are smaller shops (mom and pop type places, especially at the high end) that take credit cards, who are sometimes willing to knock a few percent off of your purchase for cash, since the credit card company will hit them up for 3%-4%. Amex and Discover are usually higher.
As much as I hate paying 5-10 for a tiny bit of "white metal" they do have a point. It is that part of the GW experience can be enhanced significantly by an active hobby shop. Things like teaching people how to play, organizing tournaments, teaching basic and advanced painting skills, and other things that help to introduce new players to the game and enhance the game for experienced players. Without these things coming from either a group of friends or a friendly hobby store, I doubt most of us would have ever picked up or kept going with the game. If enough people buy occasionally from the store to take advantage of their hobby building activities but buys the majority of their minis over the internet at steep discounts, they will eventually force the higher cost stores out of business.
Games Workshop is trying to protect these higher cost, but beneficial stores from such ativities, that they own several of these high cost stores makes their actions look less savory, but they do have a valid concern. Although for areas that don't have a full service store, or no store at all, but do have a gaming club, the benefits should flow to the clubs, which serve the same purpose as an active hobby shop. I would suggest that they could organize in the form of a co-op and order wholesale.
However both features will be included in the next release of Emacs.
From what I've read, the new side valves and lower turbo pressure should greatly improve reliability in the RX-8 over the RX-7. The old rotaries had point valves, which are cheap and easy but start to leak faster.
I don't know about ethics, but the tea is much nastier the second time around. Tea gives off tannins after it has been brewed too long, these tannins are what gives tea a very bitter flavor. If you are really interested in saving money get a tea ball and buy in bulk.
Oddly enough most of their recent profit has come from the interest on that mountain of cash. With interest rates down they earned about 120 million on their cash pile last year. They did significantly better in with the higher, but falling, rates of 2001 earning more than $150 million, prior to that they were getting about $250 million, when treasuries got about 4%-6%. They have roughly broken even on operating profit (earnings selling computers and software) for the past two years. The company has been treading water while they wait for a G5 level chip.
Vivendi has a whole lotta debt, it's north of 30 billion at the end of 2001, they haven't released figures for 2002, but probably still above 30 billion. That's why they are so interested in selling Universal, Blizzard, and their other assets and why Apple will get a pretty good deal on anything they buy. Apple would likely use around 4 billion from thier own cash stockpile, and either assume Vivendi debt, issue stock to Vivendi, or issue their own debt (expensive because investors don't see them ever really making a significant amount of profit in the near future) or equity (equity is unlikely, the company trades at roughly cash value) to pay cash, to finance the remander of the offer. It would be neat if they could really make this work, here's hoping for not too expensive distribution of mp4/aac encoded tracks.
Probably because 99% of /.ers could care less about a system that costs more than $50 and some parts they had in a box, but since most of the parts in the box come from AMD, they do care that Sun's rumored product uses parts that come from AMD.
They will have enough interest to have decision making privledges over the company. Echostar was only going to buy roughly this stake as well.
MSNBC isn't that profitable, and GE doesn't like being third in anything they do. If the war had drug on, MSNBC would have likely begun the beginning of their end.
It was mostly partnerships that let you deduct losses against your income. Imagine a group of doctors that started a partnership to build their office building, they build it, pay rent to the partnership, claim a tax loss due to deprication and interest, and deduct the rent and loss from their business income, while recieving a cash payment from the partnership at the end of the year. This and other partnerships were what drove the real estate boom of the early eighties. Other investors built office buildings for the tax loss, without expecting any rentors.
These investors forgot a very important rule of investing, "what congress giveth congress can taketh away." Congress retroactivly began taxing against Passive income generators, or these partnerships, which destroyed the whole reason for building them in the first place. Combined with the end of the energy crunch led to a tremendous downturn in real estate that lasted almost a decade in oil rich cities. Remember that next time someone starts selling you an investment based only on its tax advantages.
For tax puroposes you will want to devote a portion of you home for the office, with its own equipment. Also, keep meticulous records of your work related driving and other expenses. This will help to lower your tax bills significantly.
It was the secret behind many of the "Masters of the Universe" during the 80s. I know Milken started making his fortune by being one of the first to use calculators and later computers in his bond trading. It's a little amazing how primative the financial markets were in the late 70s and early 80s.
I find it ironic that the leader he didn't remember is Gen. Musharif of Pakistan, who became significantly more important in Pres. Bush's mind on September 12th.
My folks used to spend hours at the hardware store, and I would read the books, trying to find something interesting, one of the better books was about composting. The tips I remember well were:
Make sure you turn it regularly, the more air the faster it will compost.
Try to get a good mix of what the author classified as carbon rich, vegetables and other food wastes, with nitrogen rich plants, such as grass clippings leaves and others. It will work at 80/20 either way, but it will take longer, and the time decreases as you get closer to an equal mix.
Composting weeds is a huge waste of time, you need the pile to get very hot, to kill the seeds, and most of us just dont pay enough attention to the pile to keep it warm enough to kill em all.
If you live in a dry climate you might have to water the pile occasionally.
That's about all I remember, I think it should look pretty much like soil when you are finished, it won't be warm, or have any large particles. When it is done, it might have a slight plesant, earthy smell, too. If you get ammonia smells your pile has gone anerobic and needs to be turned more often. For your first pile don't put it near things that are flammable.
Apples should be grafted onto vigorous root stock to get a good tree, you don't just want to plant an apple seed.
Why is it that Nissan sells so many really nice cars in Japan (Skylines Silvias and others, but never thought of bringing them to the US until very recently? I don't think I have ever heard of anyone who complained about a Skyline, but did we see them no. Good gravy people are paying high 5 and low 6 digit prices to import them, and finally get the idea to sell something made on the same platform to rave reviews (The 350Z and G35 are based on the same chassis as the new Skylines).
Any herbs you cook with will be much, much better fresh, and you will save a ton. Since you're getting started try to find things at the end of their planting season, as the garden stores clearnance them, then you won't feel bad if you kill them. An easy starter garden is catus and other desert succulents, since they can go a week or two without watering, nice when you want to take a trip occasionally, and don't want to find someone to water for you. Tropicals are fun and neat to, but like water almost daily, and prefer fertilization year round. If you don't mind spending some cash, you can get some nice dwarf fruit trees that are designed for the smaller plots of land, or city dwellings. Aloe is another easy to care for plant that has an excellent second use, its great for burns, cuts, scrapes, and other minor injuries (some people drink the juice, but its pretty pungent. I don't know too many geeks that don't like some of the odder things like venus fly traps, pitcher plants, or orchids. They can be a little more difficult to care for, but are usually quite rewarding. I keep my office filled with plants, its a wonderful excuse to keep the window shade opened, and really brightens the place up.