In parts of the Pacific Nortwest, (served by hydroelectric dams) power is retail billed at 1-2/kWhr. Most of it is in smaller towns east of the Cascade moutains.
Typically the homeowners association is set up by the developer and is sold with the house. It's done to maintain property values so that actions that are legal but would tend to impact others (say raising pigs) are not permitted. As with all government bodies, what is good in theory is horrible in practice as the only people who run them are typically busybodies who just don't care for change of any kind or enjoy power. You would have to vote in a homeowners association after the houses were purchased, and I don't think it would be possible to create one without at a minimum a supermajority vote of some kind.
Essentially that's how politics works. Leaders of both parties (espeically in the senate) meet formally and informally to communicate what's important to them during a political season. Riders are technically attached in committee (which is why senior lawmakers are said to have so much power they get to sit on committees that have the most bills go through). What happens is they will attach things (via majority vote in committee). Riders are usually attached to do one of two things, secure enough votes for passage of something that a solid minority wants (say for example, something that will benefit a region of the US say a widening of I-5 or I-95), or to sink a bill that one party opposes--if a 40 member bloc didn't want to pass a bill (and they had a friend in the committee) they would do their best to get a rider that pardoned everyone in the prison system for example.
What if free ice cream was preferred by everyone more than net neutrality and the providers of the free ice cream were the beneficiaries of the net neutrality bill? Bundles are not inherently evil.
Gee wow, I think the king was hunky dory about the uprising in the colonies too. Something tells me the folks who signed the declaration might have gone on a watch list (or perhaps a beheading list). Sometimes if something is worth having it is also worth accepting risk too.
There's a not small contingent of libertarians (who tend toward the anarcho-capitalists) within the larger geek community (that tends to bend a little to the left on average).
The tax is on extraction of oil not sales of oil, California remains one of the larger oil extraction states in the Union. The fungible nature of oil means it's terribly difficult to actually harm someone by boycotting in either direction (it's pretty cheap to ship oil even a long distance so if for example California producers stop selling to California consumers the roughly 1 million barrels of oil extracted in California would just go from California to say Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona while oil would be imported from Venezuela. Extra shipping costs would probably be about $2 per barrel (or about $0.05/gallon of gas/heating oil). Good for the shippers of oil (pipelines and boats), small losses for producers and consumers of oil.
I've actually improved (I was the bane of my English teachers in grade school) thanks to the little red underline in Word.
Does anyone have a good reccomendation on a cheap dual PCIe card to be run in a 4 monitor setup? I've got the 4 monitors (1600sw) but need to upgrade the hardware to run them.
I wonder if the portion of the brain that controls motor skills is connected to the part of the brain that creates language via the speach portions? That would explain why homophone typing errors occur far more often than would be expected.
The average phone in the US is sold with at a cost of about $300-$500 per user (most of this came from 3 sources: direct hardware subsidies, sales commisssions, and advertising/signups). You used to be able to see this at Nextel, who broke out hardware charges separate from network revenues and costs. When this was done most phones sold for about $70-120 less than cost. If a non-plan phone were sold at a mark up (normal markup for electronics is 20-35% with special cases being far more and far less the unsubsidized retail price would likely be several times the subsidized price ($99 phone would go to $250-$300).
What I was assuming was that miners (even with breathing packs and safety equipment) are more likely to die than non-mine workers. As a result they get paid more than people in similar but less deadly jobs. The same calculus is going on in waitresses heads even if they aren't explicit calculations. In this case, it should be easy to tell since in most markets there are bar areas that do not allow smoking providing both employment opportunities and drinking oportunities that are smoke free. That smoking options thrive suggests that everyone involved has weighed the risk and made their choice, for non-smokers to decide that they have chosen incorrectly is a huge imposition on their right to choose and in my opinion infringing on their right should be reserved for the most extreme situations.
Given that essentially everyone has a good idea that, "Hey, smoking causes cancer." Don't you think that like coal miners, bar employees either already bear the risks (because they smoke themselves) or trade the risk of dying early for more money now?
This sure seems like a something done for a small gain (extra pleasure for people who don't patronize them all that often--else there would already be a majority of non-smoking bars) of the many (non-smoking bar patrons) at much higher cost of the few. The only other arguement is that this is a closet temperance movement by people who know that a temprance law would fail. In either case, it reminds me a whole lot of two wolves and one sheep voting on what's for dinner.
I've smoked about 4 cigars and perhaps 5 cigarettes in my life, and I too dislike the truth ads, every time I see or hear one it makes me want to light one up just to spite them. One think to consider is that while alcohol kills fewer people, it takes out far more non-participants and is much more likely to take people (users and non-users) at a much younger age. Smoking knocks people off on average 10 years before they were likely to die anyway (about 4 million average years lost anually) drinking knocks about 23 years off on average (about 2.3 million average years lost anually).
That said I really dislike no smoking in bar laws, even if they potentially benefit me. If there is enough demand for smoke free bars, many will convert, the majority non-smokers don't need to force everyone to go along with them.
Following KKR's purchase of Nabisco private equity firms (what LBO firms call themselves) generally stopped doing hostile deals. There are a few out there that still try hostile deals, Steel Partners, Ichan & Co., etc, all relish a good boardroom fight, but most of the time management invites the LBO firms in these days. There are far fewer layoffs (typically the private equity firm is planning to IPO it back to the market in a few years).
From my understanding the HP way traveled on to Agilent, which is currently doing most of what was done at the old HP. It's hard to pay for tip top benefits for what is essentially commodity work (and aside from printer toner that's essentially everything else HP does).
In regard to point 1, it wouldn't be an LBO (just an offer or BO) if some of the money weren't coming from loans. Most of the time the banks require a decent portion of the money to be invested by the fund but will loan a large amount of the transaction.
When investors borrow a bunch of money and buy the company (it's a pretty similar transaction to a home mortgage). Sometimes management does it (Safeway), other times they are hostile (Nabisco is the biggest example). Usually there is a portion of the business that the investor believes they can sell to cover a big portion of their purchase price right away (for example if you were to buy Disney an investor could quite easily sell the theme parks or ESPN (or both) and probably cover a decent portion of their total purchase price.
Too many kids don't know that when they hit x instead of +, and the answer to 8+7 is 56 not 15, they made a mistake. They just write it down and go on. I rely on Excel and my HP all the time for math, but I can usually tell when I goofed something typing it in, too.
I went to a college that required lap tops, and even in the classes where they made sense, they were either kept off by rule almost all the time, or it was a game/chat fest. I remember one military science class that had 16 of the 30 kids all playing the same Red Alert game.
Too many kids can't do basic arithmatic without a calculator (literally they can't do it anymore unless they punch it in) why are we giving 10-12 year olds more technology? I think systems for home use (with computer assignments would be a far more effective use of the money).
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In parts of the Pacific Nortwest, (served by hydroelectric dams) power is retail billed at 1-2/kWhr. Most of it is in smaller towns east of the Cascade moutains.
Typically the homeowners association is set up by the developer and is sold with the house. It's done to maintain property values so that actions that are legal but would tend to impact others (say raising pigs) are not permitted. As with all government bodies, what is good in theory is horrible in practice as the only people who run them are typically busybodies who just don't care for change of any kind or enjoy power. You would have to vote in a homeowners association after the houses were purchased, and I don't think it would be possible to create one without at a minimum a supermajority vote of some kind.
Um if the camera is in the middle doesn't that effectivly negate the whole premise for why the thing is not visible to the naked eye?
They make all their money selling iPods the store is a giveaway to keep the music industry off their backs while they sell them.
Essentially that's how politics works. Leaders of both parties (espeically in the senate) meet formally and informally to communicate what's important to them during a political season. Riders are technically attached in committee (which is why senior lawmakers are said to have so much power they get to sit on committees that have the most bills go through). What happens is they will attach things (via majority vote in committee). Riders are usually attached to do one of two things, secure enough votes for passage of something that a solid minority wants (say for example, something that will benefit a region of the US say a widening of I-5 or I-95), or to sink a bill that one party opposes--if a 40 member bloc didn't want to pass a bill (and they had a friend in the committee) they would do their best to get a rider that pardoned everyone in the prison system for example.
What if free ice cream was preferred by everyone more than net neutrality and the providers of the free ice cream were the beneficiaries of the net neutrality bill? Bundles are not inherently evil.
Gee wow, I think the king was hunky dory about the uprising in the colonies too. Something tells me the folks who signed the declaration might have gone on a watch list (or perhaps a beheading list). Sometimes if something is worth having it is also worth accepting risk too.
I think imminent domain is me with a wrecking ball, eminant domain is when the governement decides that you shouldn't own your land any longer.
There's a not small contingent of libertarians (who tend toward the anarcho-capitalists) within the larger geek community (that tends to bend a little to the left on average).
The tax is on extraction of oil not sales of oil, California remains one of the larger oil extraction states in the Union. The fungible nature of oil means it's terribly difficult to actually harm someone by boycotting in either direction (it's pretty cheap to ship oil even a long distance so if for example California producers stop selling to California consumers the roughly 1 million barrels of oil extracted in California would just go from California to say Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona while oil would be imported from Venezuela. Extra shipping costs would probably be about $2 per barrel (or about $0.05/gallon of gas/heating oil). Good for the shippers of oil (pipelines and boats), small losses for producers and consumers of oil.
I've actually improved (I was the bane of my English teachers in grade school) thanks to the little red underline in Word.
Does anyone have a good reccomendation on a cheap dual PCIe card to be run in a 4 monitor setup? I've got the 4 monitors (1600sw) but need to upgrade the hardware to run them.
I wonder if the portion of the brain that controls motor skills is connected to the part of the brain that creates language via the speach portions? That would explain why homophone typing errors occur far more often than would be expected.
What if it is being in power that causes people to want to indescriminantly kill others?
The average phone in the US is sold with at a cost of about $300-$500 per user (most of this came from 3 sources: direct hardware subsidies, sales commisssions, and advertising/signups). You used to be able to see this at Nextel, who broke out hardware charges separate from network revenues and costs. When this was done most phones sold for about $70-120 less than cost. If a non-plan phone were sold at a mark up (normal markup for electronics is 20-35% with special cases being far more and far less the unsubsidized retail price would likely be several times the subsidized price ($99 phone would go to $250-$300).
What I was assuming was that miners (even with breathing packs and safety equipment) are more likely to die than non-mine workers. As a result they get paid more than people in similar but less deadly jobs. The same calculus is going on in waitresses heads even if they aren't explicit calculations. In this case, it should be easy to tell since in most markets there are bar areas that do not allow smoking providing both employment opportunities and drinking oportunities that are smoke free. That smoking options thrive suggests that everyone involved has weighed the risk and made their choice, for non-smokers to decide that they have chosen incorrectly is a huge imposition on their right to choose and in my opinion infringing on their right should be reserved for the most extreme situations.
Given that essentially everyone has a good idea that, "Hey, smoking causes cancer." Don't you think that like coal miners, bar employees either already bear the risks (because they smoke themselves) or trade the risk of dying early for more money now?
This sure seems like a something done for a small gain (extra pleasure for people who don't patronize them all that often--else there would already be a majority of non-smoking bars) of the many (non-smoking bar patrons) at much higher cost of the few. The only other arguement is that this is a closet temperance movement by people who know that a temprance law would fail. In either case, it reminds me a whole lot of two wolves and one sheep voting on what's for dinner.
I've smoked about 4 cigars and perhaps 5 cigarettes in my life, and I too dislike the truth ads, every time I see or hear one it makes me want to light one up just to spite them. One think to consider is that while alcohol kills fewer people, it takes out far more non-participants and is much more likely to take people (users and non-users) at a much younger age. Smoking knocks people off on average 10 years before they were likely to die anyway (about 4 million average years lost anually) drinking knocks about 23 years off on average (about 2.3 million average years lost anually).
That said I really dislike no smoking in bar laws, even if they potentially benefit me. If there is enough demand for smoke free bars, many will convert, the majority non-smokers don't need to force everyone to go along with them.
Following KKR's purchase of Nabisco private equity firms (what LBO firms call themselves) generally stopped doing hostile deals. There are a few out there that still try hostile deals, Steel Partners, Ichan & Co., etc, all relish a good boardroom fight, but most of the time management invites the LBO firms in these days. There are far fewer layoffs (typically the private equity firm is planning to IPO it back to the market in a few years).
From my understanding the HP way traveled on to Agilent, which is currently doing most of what was done at the old HP. It's hard to pay for tip top benefits for what is essentially commodity work (and aside from printer toner that's essentially everything else HP does).
In regard to point 1, it wouldn't be an LBO (just an offer or BO) if some of the money weren't coming from loans. Most of the time the banks require a decent portion of the money to be invested by the fund but will loan a large amount of the transaction.
What is there to debate? Pie and chips are awesome!
When investors borrow a bunch of money and buy the company (it's a pretty similar transaction to a home mortgage). Sometimes management does it (Safeway), other times they are hostile (Nabisco is the biggest example). Usually there is a portion of the business that the investor believes they can sell to cover a big portion of their purchase price right away (for example if you were to buy Disney an investor could quite easily sell the theme parks or ESPN (or both) and probably cover a decent portion of their total purchase price.
Too many kids don't know that when they hit x instead of +, and the answer to 8+7 is 56 not 15, they made a mistake. They just write it down and go on. I rely on Excel and my HP all the time for math, but I can usually tell when I goofed something typing it in, too.
See what I mean :) I rely on the little red line under my misspelled words.
I went to a college that required lap tops, and even in the classes where they made sense, they were either kept off by rule almost all the time, or it was a game/chat fest. I remember one military science class that had 16 of the 30 kids all playing the same Red Alert game.
Too many kids can't do basic arithmatic without a calculator (literally they can't do it anymore unless they punch it in) why are we giving 10-12 year olds more technology? I think systems for home use (with computer assignments would be a far more effective use of the money).