These amounts are put on the books as "charitable good" that they give to the community when the fact of the matter is they are obligated by law and ethics to not turn away people in need of immediate medical care.
So that money they would have written off as a business loss anyway on the taxes they otherwise would still have to pay on the already handsome profits they turn year after. They meet this percentage of total revenue requirement for charitable good and they retain their privileged tax free status operating in pretty much exactly the same way as a for profit corporation.
Except for the obvious difference in that they have no shareholders, and aren't operating for profit.
Yes, no-pay/under-pay is the big "charity" write-off for non-profit hospitals, but the goal of the big ones are all the same - a mission of healing. They can provide care, and cycle profits back into that care without paying shareholders.
Do their CEO's make money? Sure....but they aren't making any more than the Jones do at the neighboring for-profit hospital.
The ability to face-to-face transfer wallet information makes Bitcoin's blockchain less than foolproof.
As long as I can create a number of wallets, put a bitcoin in each of them, write those wallets down on pieces of paper; I can trade them like I would cash.
A group of people, no matter how small, keeping the fact that you're sitting on 1BN a secret? Someone's going to spill the beans to someone soon enough. Or it's one guy, and he's already rich enough that there's little temptation.
LED bulbs The LED bulb used here has a lifetime of 30,000 hours, so we would need only one bulb over the period of this study. Unfortunately, that single bulb has a cost of $119.99.
As it uses 7.5 watts, over a period of 30,000 hours, an LED bulb would use 245,000 watt hours, or 245 kilowatt hours. At the current approximate price of $0.10 per kilowatt hour, you would have to pay $24.50 to run an LED bulb over this period.
Thus, the total cost of an LED bulb over a 30,000 hour lifespan is $144.49.
WUT?
The single LED bulb cost $119.99? You had to go highlight those yourself. Are you that ignorant as to the cost of 60 watt replacement bulbs?
You've got - at least - an extra digit in there, buddy. A Cree 60 watt replacement LED is $9.97 at Home Depot in quantities of one. It uses 9.5 watts, or 285 kWh ($28.50), for a total cost of $38.47.
That means the total cost of the LED about $150 cheaper than an incandescent.
Mass transit does seem the most vulnerable, and NYC subways seem the most dangerous.
The cars themselves and/or the tracks/tunnels they ride on/in might actually have some sort of detection for radiation. A quick Google search says the NYPD patrols with handheld radiation detectors, so it's now a game of finding the most trafficked location that people linger for ~30 seconds in that doesn't have someone checking for radiation regularly. [That also probably rules out a lot of doctor and dentist offices, as well as hospitals and municipal buildings in huge metro areas where at least some police are probably armed with radiation gear.]
A Vegas taxi servicing the strip, or the shuttle bus between Harrah's and The Rio...
There's plenty of more dangerous public locations, and a lot of semi-private ones would be worse.
A doctor's office, or chair at the DMV would might get a dozen people a day. Ditto for plenty of public service waiting rooms. The plane that services US Airways flight 624 to Vegas probably goes back and forth 5-6 times a day, so that might get a dozen people -- but you'd have to get the '60 through security. The Disneyland Monorail probably gets someone every 20 minutes for 14 hours a day, but might be all plastic. I'm sure there's *some* Disneyland/6 Flags/Magic Mountain ride that you could leave the '60 on if you had the right container that'd do the same as the monorail.
I'm not trolling you, I have a serious question for you.
I'm going to guess it's 50-50 at best, but...
Do you feel like this explanation has somehow made you appear more mature than an adult who enjoys playing Super Mario on his 3DS?
I think that, overall, an adult, not carrying around 3DS is more mature than an adult carrying around a 3DS.
As to playing on a 3DS, every last person in my house has outgrown their 3DS. My teen kids prefer consoles and PCs now for their "real" gaming, and phones/pods for killing time in a car. So, my experience is that it's a device for kids that kids outgrow. The last adult I saw with a 3DS was at a My Little Pony CCG launch event playing against an eleven year old.
Do I think my posts, ones explaining that some my geek hobbies (poker, Magic) make me more mature than the average guy I run into holding a 3DS? I don't think the posts do that, but I think my choice of hobbies does. It's a generalization, of course, but I'll take the average maturity of the next 20 serious poker players I encounter over the average maturity of the next 20 adults I find playing on a 3DS.
I'm just getting trolled (which is fine), but Magic shares a common thread with poker in that they're both games of incomplete information. Magic also includes some of the same sort of probability questions when making decisions on how to play out you hand. [Figuring out what your chances of making a flush by the river and figuring out your chances of drawing a 4th land by turn 5 require similar {basic} math skills.]
A number of professional poker players got their start playing Magic, and a good number of professional poker players still play today. The skill sets for for the games overlap considerably. My experience in poker has helped my Magic game considerably. My experience with Magic helped my poker game as well, albeit to a lesser extent.
I use my smartphone to keep life totals in Magic, and as a crutch at the poker table to keep myself focused during long stretches of folding hands.
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I played Magic from '93 to '00 or so. In 2012 I returned to the game when some friends of mine opened a store. To support them, I enjoy myself thoroughly playing and shopping only at their store - plus the occasional trip to events in Vegas.
I've played poker since I was a teen, and have made trips to the WSOP the last three years, where I regularly play one of the smaller events [$1500 HORSE] and then play cash Omaha on the side. I probably play about a minimum of 10 hours a week - much less than when online was more available. To complete my poker nerdness, I have an RFID enabled poker table, using the kit from videopokertable.net -- and I live-stream my poker games (complete with hole cards) online.
I enjoy the whole, "not carrying a second device" and "not constantly needing a video game in my hand" as a part of growing up, and having a fallback of a tablet or phone as a mobile gaming choice.
The majority of nerds I see wielding 3DS systems seem to be the type wearing jean jackets with MLP and Poke' patches on 'em.
My two young teen kids grew out of their assorted DS systems over the last two years. If you're still using a DS as an adult, you're likely just waxing nostalgic.
Based on my complete lack of understanding of these sort of objects, I imagine it's a race of sorts -- a contest between whatever intergalactic debris it might suck in versus its rate of burn.
Focus Fusion might be viable on the horizon, especially at a potential price tag of only $226 million, but you can get a Hybrid Fusion for about $22,000 MSRP.
Slashdot Mirror
"That's nice."
-NSA Press Secretary
The larger the sum, the smaller the group necessary to keep the secret from leaking out.
All my mod points!
I think a boomerang was thrown further.
Conceptually?
Up your dosage.
You mean, exactly the same problem as any printed check?
I'm saying that the block chain record isn't proof of anything, since coins can change hands in unrecorded steps quite easily.
These amounts are put on the books as "charitable good" that they give to the community when the fact of the matter is they are obligated by law and ethics to not turn away people in need of immediate medical care.
So that money they would have written off as a business loss anyway on the taxes they otherwise would still have to pay on the already handsome profits they turn year after. They meet this percentage of total revenue requirement for charitable good and they retain their privileged tax free status operating in pretty much exactly the same way as a for profit corporation.
Except for the obvious difference in that they have no shareholders, and aren't operating for profit.
Yes, no-pay/under-pay is the big "charity" write-off for non-profit hospitals, but the goal of the big ones are all the same - a mission of healing. They can provide care, and cycle profits back into that care without paying shareholders.
Do their CEO's make money? Sure. ...but they aren't making any more than the Jones do at the neighboring for-profit hospital.
Nobody for whom that video matters is going to sit still for 20 minutes.
The ability to face-to-face transfer wallet information makes Bitcoin's blockchain less than foolproof.
As long as I can create a number of wallets, put a bitcoin in each of them, write those wallets down on pieces of paper; I can trade them like I would cash.
A group of people, no matter how small, keeping the fact that you're sitting on 1BN a secret? Someone's going to spill the beans to someone soon enough. Or it's one guy, and he's already rich enough that there's little temptation.
That's my wild speculation. :)
What?!? Two WHOLE years to recoup an investment only slightly larger than a trip to Starbucks.
LED bulbs The LED bulb used here has a lifetime of 30,000 hours, so we would need only one bulb over the period of this study. Unfortunately, that single bulb has a cost of $119.99.
As it uses 7.5 watts, over a period of 30,000 hours, an LED bulb would use 245,000 watt hours, or 245 kilowatt hours. At the current approximate price of $0.10 per kilowatt hour, you would have to pay $24.50 to run an LED bulb over this period.
Thus, the total cost of an LED bulb over a 30,000 hour lifespan is $144.49.
WUT?
The single LED bulb cost $119.99? You had to go highlight those yourself. Are you that ignorant as to the cost of 60 watt replacement bulbs?
You've got - at least - an extra digit in there, buddy. A Cree 60 watt replacement LED is $9.97 at Home Depot in quantities of one. It uses 9.5 watts, or 285 kWh ($28.50), for a total cost of $38.47.
That means the total cost of the LED about $150 cheaper than an incandescent.
I opened 750ml bottle of Cobalt '60, but less than 1ml of it was still fresh.
Mass transit does seem the most vulnerable, and NYC subways seem the most dangerous.
The cars themselves and/or the tracks/tunnels they ride on/in might actually have some sort of detection for radiation. A quick Google search says the NYPD patrols with handheld radiation detectors, so it's now a game of finding the most trafficked location that people linger for ~30 seconds in that doesn't have someone checking for radiation regularly. [That also probably rules out a lot of doctor and dentist offices, as well as hospitals and municipal buildings in huge metro areas where at least some police are probably armed with radiation gear.]
A Vegas taxi servicing the strip, or the shuttle bus between Harrah's and The Rio...
There's plenty of more dangerous public locations, and a lot of semi-private ones would be worse.
A doctor's office, or chair at the DMV would might get a dozen people a day. Ditto for plenty of public service waiting rooms. The plane that services US Airways flight 624 to Vegas probably goes back and forth 5-6 times a day, so that might get a dozen people -- but you'd have to get the '60 through security. The Disneyland Monorail probably gets someone every 20 minutes for 14 hours a day, but might be all plastic. I'm sure there's *some* Disneyland/6 Flags/Magic Mountain ride that you could leave the '60 on if you had the right container that'd do the same as the monorail.
I'm not trolling you, I have a serious question for you.
I'm going to guess it's 50-50 at best, but...
Do you feel like this explanation has somehow made you appear more mature than an adult who enjoys playing Super Mario on his 3DS?
I think that, overall, an adult, not carrying around 3DS is more mature than an adult carrying around a 3DS.
As to playing on a 3DS, every last person in my house has outgrown their 3DS. My teen kids prefer consoles and PCs now for their "real" gaming, and phones/pods for killing time in a car. So, my experience is that it's a device for kids that kids outgrow. The last adult I saw with a 3DS was at a My Little Pony CCG launch event playing against an eleven year old.
Do I think my posts, ones explaining that some my geek hobbies (poker, Magic) make me more mature than the average guy I run into holding a 3DS? I don't think the posts do that, but I think my choice of hobbies does. It's a generalization, of course, but I'll take the average maturity of the next 20 serious poker players I encounter over the average maturity of the next 20 adults I find playing on a 3DS.
Lighten up, Frances.
I'm just getting trolled (which is fine), but Magic shares a common thread with poker in that they're both games of incomplete information. Magic also includes some of the same sort of probability questions when making decisions on how to play out you hand. [Figuring out what your chances of making a flush by the river and figuring out your chances of drawing a 4th land by turn 5 require similar {basic} math skills.]
A number of professional poker players got their start playing Magic, and a good number of professional poker players still play today. The skill sets for for the games overlap considerably. My experience in poker has helped my Magic game considerably. My experience with Magic helped my poker game as well, albeit to a lesser extent.
Both! Thanks for reading my user history.
I use my smartphone to keep life totals in Magic, and as a crutch at the poker table to keep myself focused during long stretches of folding hands.
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I played Magic from '93 to '00 or so. In 2012 I returned to the game when some friends of mine opened a store. To support them, I enjoy myself thoroughly playing and shopping only at their store - plus the occasional trip to events in Vegas.
I've played poker since I was a teen, and have made trips to the WSOP the last three years, where I regularly play one of the smaller events [$1500 HORSE] and then play cash Omaha on the side. I probably play about a minimum of 10 hours a week - much less than when online was more available. To complete my poker nerdness, I have an RFID enabled poker table, using the kit from videopokertable.net -- and I live-stream my poker games (complete with hole cards) online.
I enjoy the whole, "not carrying a second device" and "not constantly needing a video game in my hand" as a part of growing up, and having a fallback of a tablet or phone as a mobile gaming choice.
So, to each their own.
Un bon mot ne prouve rien.
As a nerd, I game.
The majority of nerds I see wielding 3DS systems seem to be the type wearing jean jackets with MLP and Poke' patches on 'em.
My two young teen kids grew out of their assorted DS systems over the last two years. If you're still using a DS as an adult, you're likely just waxing nostalgic.
Based on my complete lack of understanding of these sort of objects, I imagine it's a race of sorts -- a contest between whatever intergalactic debris it might suck in versus its rate of burn.
41,338,740 - sucker!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game)#Highest_score
Being an adult ruined it for me.
*shrug*
Focus Fusion might be viable on the horizon, especially at a potential price tag of only $226 million, but you can get a Hybrid Fusion for about $22,000 MSRP.