pay as you go car insurance will only be economical to very few individuals...maybe someone in a very large city who only drivers their car a few times a month.
No, those people will use an on-demand car service, thus paying less.
But why do you say that changing this fundamentally unjust system would raise rates to an unreasonable level? What would happen is that those people that drive a lot would have to bear the true cost of their mileage-burning, instead of being subsidized by low-mileage people. Everybody pays for their own risks and potential accident costs. What's unreasonable about that?
It's just like health insurance - it's a risk pool. When you stratify the pool based on history, getting in an expensive accident will raise your rates by putting you in a higher stratum. Since all the safe drivers (no accidents) are in a lower stratum, your risk is spread among all the other people with similar records, costwise.
The safe drivers will pay well over the insurance company's costs, as there is little motivation to lower rates. The expensive drivers will pay massive rates - if you were in a no-fault state and hit a Mercedes that pulled out in front of you, you could be bumped into the $30,000 damage stratum. Good luck paying that rate.
They've set up an impromptu truck stop on southbound I-95 before New York City. It's been there for about 2 - 3 weeks now and creating massive traffic jams. The traffic was already bad, but now instead of a three 2 mile delays, you have one massive 15 mile delay. It's great. Hope they find a lot of terrorists.
I drove up via I-83 (i think that's the one), and it took me about 5 hours. Of course, I was driving slow and taking all sorts of detours. Other alternatives are Amtrak and Greyhound. The train was kinda pricey last I checked, but the bus is dirt cheap and takes about 4 hours.
The language had no word for "I" or "no". It was all commands, such as "You will do this." They had no way of saying "No, I won't.", because the concept didn't exist in the language. I recently re-read it after many years and it's still an incredible read.
Are you sure? They could just not do something, then apologize profusely, and then not do it again.
You don't expect us to believe that a Trooper in any state, even in the southern states people love to make fun of, doesn't know that Wisconsin is a state in the union?
Cue the story of the Hon. Rep. from New Mexico trying to buy tickets for the 2000 Olympics and being told that she needed to go through her own country's contact.
Do you suppose that there's a law of physics which says North must be up? Having globes and maps uniformly show South as up would work just as well. It's simply a convention and absolutely arbitrary.
Not a law of physics, but all compasses point north, and most of the land is north of the equator, so it's far from arbitrary.
He needs to get into the DirecTV DVR code and figure out why it takes 30 seconds to display the guide, a minute to open your "Now Playing" list of shows, and 5+ minutes to sort a 30-entry list of season passes.
That sounds like a job for... ME! Are you listening, Tivo? You already have my resume.
Not entirely. He had several good works. He also had several really awful works. He wrote a LOT.
This describes every serious author to ever live. The difference between a good and bad author is in what they choose not to release. Think about that the next time they find unfinished work on some dead author's desk.
Well, I've never seen a woman work for 60 hours non-stop and completely rewrite the core of your software to run twice as fast. Unlike guys, they have a hard time managing to forget to, like, shower and stuff.
Thank Ghu for that! I don't care how hard you work, spending 30 minutes a day on hygiene helps the rest of us.
More seriously, I've never seen a female programmer who came close to the best male programmers I've worked with. Then again, I've only seen about half a dozen female programmers...
I have run into a number of excellent female admins. It seems that men lack the necessary cruelty for the job.
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Actually, that's an especially good time for it. Arrests must be public. Yes, it's horribly embarrassing to be arrested, and I will feel ashamed if I am ever arrested, but secret arrests are tyrannical.
And arests are public. This goes beyond that by broadcasting the details of bookings to those who wouldn't normally seek the info out. This can cause serious problems - a guy in Britain was recently fired and harassed becaue the police broadcast a video of him withdrawing money from an atm while stating that he wasn't scamming money with a forged card.
Parts of programming which were art forms 10 years ago are a science today. Memory management, for example, is now a very well understood process. What happened? It ceased to be a programming task. Think: Java verus assembly language. Don't spend much time juggling pointers in Java, do you?
No, but I do spend some time cajoling the GC into running when I'm not running out of memory.
Unfortunately, this is pretty typical of "technical analysis", which is the voodoo of charting past patterns to predict future prices. I once spoke with a trader at a major Wall Street firm who believed that prices have "supports" and "restraints" -- i.e. natural floors and ceilings that they don't want to break through. When I asked her what happens if a price breaks through the floor, she responded with the hilariously tautological, "well, it just goes lower until it establishes a new floor!"
This could be explained in psychological terms - prices themselves don't have floors, but traders percieve things that aren't really there about prices.
Come on, I am slowly but surely taking over all of space by registering stars at the US Patent office. Do not worry - I have about 100 constellations now - talk about prime time real-estate.
Tell me again how you're getting a patent on real estate?
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pay as you go car insurance will only be economical to very few individuals...maybe someone in a very large city who only drivers their car a few times a month.
No, those people will use an on-demand car service, thus paying less.
But why do you say that changing this fundamentally unjust system would raise rates to an unreasonable level? What would happen is that those people that drive a lot would have to bear the true cost of their mileage-burning, instead of being subsidized by low-mileage people. Everybody pays for their own risks and potential accident costs. What's unreasonable about that?
It's just like health insurance - it's a risk pool. When you stratify the pool based on history, getting in an expensive accident will raise your rates by putting you in a higher stratum. Since all the safe drivers (no accidents) are in a lower stratum, your risk is spread among all the other people with similar records, costwise.
The safe drivers will pay well over the insurance company's costs, as there is little motivation to lower rates. The expensive drivers will pay massive rates - if you were in a no-fault state and hit a Mercedes that pulled out in front of you, you could be bumped into the $30,000 damage stratum. Good luck paying that rate.
They've set up an impromptu truck stop on southbound I-95 before New York City. It's been there for about 2 - 3 weeks now and creating massive traffic jams. The traffic was already bad, but now instead of a three 2 mile delays, you have one massive 15 mile delay. It's great. Hope they find a lot of terrorists.
I drove up via I-83 (i think that's the one), and it took me about 5 hours. Of course, I was driving slow and taking all sorts of detours. Other alternatives are Amtrak and Greyhound. The train was kinda pricey last I checked, but the bus is dirt cheap and takes about 4 hours.
The language had no word for "I" or "no". It was all commands, such as "You will do this." They had no way of saying "No, I won't.", because the concept didn't exist in the language. I recently re-read it after many years and it's still an incredible read.
Are you sure? They could just not do something, then apologize profusely, and then not do it again.
Umm....get a DAMN good start driving?
Well, If I'm only going to NYC, it's just as fast to drive, what with all the idiotic security meaasures at the airports.
Compases point south, too. Saying the compass points north is just as arbitrary.
The thing the compasses point at is in the north.
And who says the bulk of the landmass has to be on the top?
I do. It makes it easier for me to read the globe.
I'm thinking that the average Jinbo in China probably doesn't care if Taiwan is listed on the map or not.
However, China has a major hardon for filtering every bit of info that gets back into the country.
You don't expect us to believe that a Trooper in any state, even in the southern states people love to make fun of, doesn't know that Wisconsin is a state in the union?
Cue the story of the Hon. Rep. from New Mexico trying to buy tickets for the 2000 Olympics and being told that she needed to go through her own country's contact.
We have a huge population of Gahanians (from Ghana) and Somalians in our city but I bet most people don't know where either of those countries are.
How is that important, aside from making conversation? It's not like any of them will need a ride to northern Africa.
Do you suppose that there's a law of physics which says North must be up? Having globes and maps uniformly show South as up would work just as well. It's simply a convention and absolutely arbitrary.
Not a law of physics, but all compasses point north, and most of the land is north of the equator, so it's far from arbitrary.
my god, that's so crazy IT JUST MIGHT WORK!!!!
Naw, man. That's just plain crazy.
He needs to get into the DirecTV DVR code and figure out why it takes 30 seconds to display the guide, a minute to open your "Now Playing" list of shows, and 5+ minutes to sort a 30-entry list of season passes.
That sounds like a job for ... ME! Are you listening, Tivo? You already have my resume.
You don't remember that little 9-11 thing? Highjackings?
Apparently, you don't remember it. The 9-11 hijackers all traveled under their own ID. Fat lot of good it did us.
Why the hell would we stuff this onto the IDE interface? This would be a great opportunity to drop that interface entirely.
Because SATA is fast and cheap. Duh.
Do you really believe that the people who controlled substantial chunks of $$ in 1997 are the same as in 2004?
Bill Gates, The Rockefellers, the Kennedys, the Bushs, and so on. Yep, same guys, right on down the line.
Yeah, insurance is really going to help there lol.
A publicly funded innoculation program would. You know, as part of a 'Health program'?
as a society I don't give a damn if my neighbor has health insurance.
Until he catches the plague, that is.
Not entirely. He had several good works. He also had several really awful works. He wrote a LOT.
This describes every serious author to ever live. The difference between a good and bad author is in what they choose not to release. Think about that the next time they find unfinished work on some dead author's desk.
Well, I've never seen a woman work for 60 hours non-stop and completely rewrite the core of your software to run twice as fast. Unlike guys, they have a hard time managing to forget to, like, shower and stuff.
Thank Ghu for that! I don't care how hard you work, spending 30 minutes a day on hygiene helps the rest of us.
More seriously, I've never seen a female programmer who came close to the best male programmers I've worked with. Then again, I've only seen about half a dozen female programmers...
I have run into a number of excellent female admins. It seems that men lack the necessary cruelty for the job.
Actually, that's an especially good time for it. Arrests must be public. Yes, it's horribly embarrassing to be arrested, and I will feel ashamed if I am ever arrested, but secret arrests are tyrannical.
And arests are public. This goes beyond that by broadcasting the details of bookings to those who wouldn't normally seek the info out. This can cause serious problems - a guy in Britain was recently fired and harassed becaue the police broadcast a video of him withdrawing money from an atm while stating that he wasn't scamming money with a forged card.
Parts of programming which were art forms 10 years ago are a science today. Memory management, for example, is now a very well understood process. What happened? It ceased to be a programming task. Think: Java verus assembly language. Don't spend much time juggling pointers in Java, do you?
No, but I do spend some time cajoling the GC into running when I'm not running out of memory.
Unfortunately, this is pretty typical of "technical analysis", which is the voodoo of charting past patterns to predict future prices. I once spoke with a trader at a major Wall Street firm who believed that prices have "supports" and "restraints" -- i.e. natural floors and ceilings that they don't want to break through. When I asked her what happens if a price breaks through the floor, she responded with the hilariously tautological, "well, it just goes lower until it establishes a new floor!"
This could be explained in psychological terms - prices themselves don't have floors, but traders percieve things that aren't really there about prices.
Kind of like sticking a carrot in the gun barrel and letting them blow it up themselves.
Except that, if you actually did that, you'd just make a mess of the carrot.
Now in real life too. Too bad you can't toss the occasional opportunistic grenade like in Half Life.
Come on, I am slowly but surely taking over all of space by registering stars at the US Patent office. Do not worry - I have about 100 constellations now - talk about prime time real-estate.
Tell me again how you're getting a patent on real estate?