The adults in my immediate family (parents, siblings) all have medical power of attorney documents and clear instructions to never leave us in a situation where we're left to suffer or "burden" the family. We're all slated for cremation, with the ashes to go to anyone who might want them. None of us have a special desire to be remembered by a pile of cremains.
There are situations like Alzheimer's which could quite likely suck for everyone, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
We've dealt with a few cancers now, and we've (as a family) made the decisions to take treatments based on expected quality of life around it.
Pet related, I've had a few animals put down. Sad, but death is (mostly) a fact of life.
[With only 100 billion humans ever having lived, 7% of us are still alive today, making "being human" only 93% lethal to date...]
It's not clear if that $850 is figured out by dividing dogs owned by dollars spent, or if that's gleaned from veterinarians and pet med providers divided by their customers.
I suspect it's the later.
I know numerous pet owners who haven't ever spent a dime on their pet outside of bags of kibble and a flea collar or two. $850 might be the average, but it sure isn't realistic of what one might actually spend. Double or triple that, I'd hazard. More if you're in a "nice" neighborhood.
I'm not sure I spend $850/year on my own medical care........although I'm sure that'll go up as I get older -- before ending abruptly.
"A woman in England paid over $17,000 for her cat to spend six days in an oxygen tent to cure its paralyzed larynx. The cat showed its gratitude by briefly holding eye contact."
The Xbox One is ALWAYS examining the contents of the room, ESPECIALLY when the light is low or off. Low light triggers the "sexual movement" algorithms of the Kinect 'Human motion aware' sensor system, the one that uses a military grade 'time of flight' depth camera that Bill Gates spent multiple billions of dollars to develop.
You were so close to a successful troll attempt until that paragraph.
I made a plunge on a "real" jersey last year. A large part of my decision was finding a player I liked who had a high likelihood of being with the team in 5 years.
For $300 jerseys, they should offer a trade/injury guarantee.:(
With the exception of the Packers (who are, for the purposes of this discussion, owned by their city), the teams themselves though, of course, are for profit.
It's just the ruling body - the league office - that's a non-profit. You can be a big business as a non-profit, and you can pay your employees well, but non-profit means exactly what it means. Goodell makes like 30mil, but the money the teams and players get is certainly not immune from taxes.
Most of the money from the $200 jersey goes to the team, with the NFL (the organizing body) and the NFLPA taking their cuts to (a) manage the league, and (b) provide a player's organization.
While you can certainly argue that the NFL (organizing body) shouldn't make so much money, it's hard to argue that they should have a goal for individual profit. Their goal is to grow and manage the league, for the benefit of the for-profit (and fully taxed) teams. If they're for-profit, then they have a direct interest in, for example, moving small market teams. [Moving a small market team might help Goodell himself, in that he's got hefty bonuses for his performance, but the NFL (organizing body) itself doesn't make more money -- since it doesn't make money -- by moving the Vikings to Tokyo.]
Every big CEO, even those that work for non-profit companies, have bonuses.
As an aside, Pauley Perrette had, a couple of years back, the highest Q Score (or probably TVQ score) of anyone on TV - or so magazines reported, with vague details, because Q Scores are the sort of thing you pay a bunch of money to subscribe to.
Gump My phone is plugged in here. Now this mother-fucking trace buster is gonna keep that mother-fucker from uh... tracin' our shit you know what I'm sayin'? And not only does this trace buster keep our buster from tracin' your call but it can also uh... uh... trace the mother-fucker that's tracin' your shit! Cisco All right, so what if they have a trace buster too? Gump Yo yo yo, that's why I gots this Trace Buster BUSTER. See, when the mother-fucker tries to bust your trace with a trace buster. This mother-fucker is gonna bust the mother-fucking trace buster that's bustin' your... uh... Cisco Trace! Gump That's my word playah!
From context, I believe they mean "asteroids closer to the sun having surface temperatures *at the time of their formation* that are warmer than those located further away."
Anyone who's ever moved a domain from a stubborn registrar feels this guy's pain.
They'll look into his dispute, BY FAX, over the next few months, and send him a resolution by postal mail -- and by postal mail, I mean postal mail to the domains "real" (read: current) owner.
The Leaf is available as a $240 (after tax) lease with fuel costs under $20/mo. It's hardly expensive.
USA Today tells me the average new car purchase price in 2013 was about $31,200 - about $10k more than a an entry level Nissan Leaf after the tax credit.
Tarantino was his usual take-my-ball-and-go-home self about the leak.
He shared the script with a small circle of people, mostly Tarantino regulars (Madsen, Roth), but included the agents of a few people, including Bruce Dern's and Reggie Hudlin's. He pretty much blames someone at CAA for leaking it, and wanted a name on a platter; not getting one, he promised to shelf the film as some sort of punishment.
Simplifying Tarantino to quirky characters discussing of minutiae while the oldies play on the diner jukebox is like saying the Ramones only use three chords on the downbeat.
1) If your house burnt down, you should be thrilled you bought some sort of license instead of a physical disc, because your license survives. Yay!
2) There is no DRM preventing you from making backups. This entire comment thread sticks on ice. The only DRM is a single registration at install. You are free to make as many copies as you like on as many machines as you like, and you are free to backup your disk as many times as you'd like. In fact, you can copy the directory wholesale to another device and POOF! it launches.
The only restriction is a 1:1 purchase:person for online play.
..and as such, it's being sold to people who are in the market for other cars in that price range (or a little below that range, plus the benefit of no gas, and status of "OMG! Tesla").
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I just dislike databases upon databases of our information that we can't control.
One of the first steps in treating these things is to surrender to those things out of your control and become accepting of them.
The adults in my immediate family (parents, siblings) all have medical power of attorney documents and clear instructions to never leave us in a situation where we're left to suffer or "burden" the family. We're all slated for cremation, with the ashes to go to anyone who might want them. None of us have a special desire to be remembered by a pile of cremains.
There are situations like Alzheimer's which could quite likely suck for everyone, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
We've dealt with a few cancers now, and we've (as a family) made the decisions to take treatments based on expected quality of life around it.
Pet related, I've had a few animals put down. Sad, but death is (mostly) a fact of life.
[With only 100 billion humans ever having lived, 7% of us are still alive today, making "being human" only 93% lethal to date...]
I only use pet meds that have been tested on human prisoners.
It's not clear if that $850 is figured out by dividing dogs owned by dollars spent, or if that's gleaned from veterinarians and pet med providers divided by their customers.
I suspect it's the later.
I know numerous pet owners who haven't ever spent a dime on their pet outside of bags of kibble and a flea collar or two. $850 might be the average, but it sure isn't realistic of what one might actually spend. Double or triple that, I'd hazard. More if you're in a "nice" neighborhood.
I'm not sure I spend $850/year on my own medical care.... ....although I'm sure that'll go up as I get older -- before ending abruptly.
"A woman in England paid over $17,000 for her cat to spend six days in an oxygen tent to cure its paralyzed larynx. The cat showed its gratitude by briefly holding eye contact."
As a 9 year old reading this site, I found the 8-and-up information quite informative, you insensitive clod.
The Xbox One is ALWAYS examining the contents of the room, ESPECIALLY when the light is low or off. Low light triggers the "sexual movement" algorithms of the Kinect 'Human motion aware' sensor system, the one that uses a military grade 'time of flight' depth camera that Bill Gates spent multiple billions of dollars to develop.
You were so close to a successful troll attempt until that paragraph.
I made a plunge on a "real" jersey last year. A large part of my decision was finding a player I liked who had a high likelihood of being with the team in 5 years.
For $300 jerseys, they should offer a trade/injury guarantee. :(
With the exception of the Packers (who are, for the purposes of this discussion, owned by their city), the teams themselves though, of course, are for profit.
It's just the ruling body - the league office - that's a non-profit. You can be a big business as a non-profit, and you can pay your employees well, but non-profit means exactly what it means. Goodell makes like 30mil, but the money the teams and players get is certainly not immune from taxes.
Most of the money from the $200 jersey goes to the team, with the NFL (the organizing body) and the NFLPA taking their cuts to (a) manage the league, and (b) provide a player's organization.
While you can certainly argue that the NFL (organizing body) shouldn't make so much money, it's hard to argue that they should have a goal for individual profit. Their goal is to grow and manage the league, for the benefit of the for-profit (and fully taxed) teams. If they're for-profit, then they have a direct interest in, for example, moving small market teams. [Moving a small market team might help Goodell himself, in that he's got hefty bonuses for his performance, but the NFL (organizing body) itself doesn't make more money -- since it doesn't make money -- by moving the Vikings to Tokyo.]
Every big CEO, even those that work for non-profit companies, have bonuses.
As an aside, Pauley Perrette had, a couple of years back, the highest Q Score (or probably TVQ score) of anyone on TV - or so magazines reported, with vague details, because Q Scores are the sort of thing you pay a bunch of money to subscribe to.
I'm glad she's inspiring people.
Gump My phone is plugged in here. Now this mother-fucking trace buster is gonna keep that mother-fucker from uh... tracin' our shit you know what I'm sayin'? And not only does this trace buster keep our buster from tracin' your call but it can also uh... uh... trace the mother-fucker that's tracin' your shit!
Cisco All right, so what if they have a trace buster too?
Gump Yo yo yo, that's why I gots this Trace Buster BUSTER. See, when the mother-fucker tries to bust your trace with a trace buster. This mother-fucker is gonna bust the mother-fucking trace buster that's bustin' your... uh...
Cisco Trace!
Gump That's my word playah!
Excellent, can you get to work on See Spot Run now?
http://www.straightdope.com/co...
Or a G, for half that.
Yeah. I need to get in the middle of one of these transactions somehow.
Google seems willing to pay 10B to rent companies for a while...
No graphic designer, EVER has said they wanted to use Comic Sans.
I can think of one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
From context, I believe they mean "asteroids closer to the sun having surface temperatures *at the time of their formation* that are warmer than those located further away."
Conceptually?
Street cred.
Anyone who's ever moved a domain from a stubborn registrar feels this guy's pain.
They'll look into his dispute, BY FAX, over the next few months, and send him a resolution by postal mail -- and by postal mail, I mean postal mail to the domains "real" (read: current) owner.
The Leaf is available as a $240 (after tax) lease with fuel costs under $20/mo. It's hardly expensive.
USA Today tells me the average new car purchase price in 2013 was about $31,200 - about $10k more than a an entry level Nissan Leaf after the tax credit.
It's hardly a low-range toy.
Tarantino was his usual take-my-ball-and-go-home self about the leak.
He shared the script with a small circle of people, mostly Tarantino regulars (Madsen, Roth), but included the agents of a few people, including Bruce Dern's and Reggie Hudlin's. He pretty much blames someone at CAA for leaking it, and wanted a name on a platter; not getting one, he promised to shelf the film as some sort of punishment.
Simplifying Tarantino to quirky characters discussing of minutiae while the oldies play on the diner jukebox is like saying the Ramones only use three chords on the downbeat.
1) If your house burnt down, you should be thrilled you bought some sort of license instead of a physical disc, because your license survives. Yay!
2) There is no DRM preventing you from making backups. This entire comment thread sticks on ice. The only DRM is a single registration at install. You are free to make as many copies as you like on as many machines as you like, and you are free to backup your disk as many times as you'd like. In fact, you can copy the directory wholesale to another device and POOF! it launches.
The only restriction is a 1:1 purchase:person for online play.
It must be some sort of childish entitlement mentality.
A seemingly ironic comment about the ability to use The Pirate Bay...
..and as such, it's being sold to people who are in the market for other cars in that price range (or a little below that range, plus the benefit of no gas, and status of "OMG! Tesla").
The Nissan Leaf is the poor man's Tesla.
0F is "well below the freezing point".
...of what?