"1000" is the Navy's way of designating that this is the next generation of DDG, as it represents a major design and development departure from previous generations.
It's not so much a break in the numbering system, since the previous DD ships ended at 997.
Its hull number will be DDG-1000, which abandons the guided missile destroyer sequence used by the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG-51– ), and continues the previous "gun destroyer" sequence from the last of Spruance-class, USS Hayler (DD-997).
In an ideal world, they'd balance their needs to run a cost efficient business with your desire to use their service and they'd end up with the sort of seats they have now.
Exactly, the seats are negligible in weight compared to the passengers themselves. I bet the extra 5-6 passengers easily outweigh the "lighter seats" by 10-30 times. Especially when you add any luggage and/or carryons....
Oh SNAP!
If only a smart guy like you worked for the airlines, and he could have figured out the average weight of a passenger with their luggage and figured this out in advance!
Any reasonably smart party of two will book the window and aisle hoping that the flight isn't at capacity and that the middle seat never fills.
When you're a single traveler looking a the last dozen seats available on an airplane, you'll almost always pick an open window or aisle before choosing a middle seat.
If their gamble is successful, they get three seats for the price of two.
If their gamble is unsuccessful, they get what they paid for, and often end up sitting together anyway, because they'll just trade with the grateful soul who got "upgraded" out of the middle to the aisle or window.
I'm obviously a rube with regards to how the magic happens beyond "Strike first, strike fast, strike often!" but it's pretty fucking clear to everyone that Average Joe doesn't benefit one bit from this unless he's bought stock in SuperHFT TradeCo.
Nobody benefits from this except 1/100th of 1%'ers trying to move into the 1/1000th of 1%'ers at the sake of making sure that you or I can't possibly play, because the playing field is so un-level it's a miracle we don't slide right off it......after leaving our wallets.
I mean, even a short nap instantly improves how you feel, anywhere from 5-15 minutes.
Not everyone responds well to short naps. I don't. I know I'm no alone....not simply trying to be contrary, just saying that short naps aren't for everyone.
While I agree, a delayed paycheck shouldn't cripple these people, some of them will get screwed because they were probably already living tight, paycheck to paycheck.
Lots of people with mortgages due on the 1st are already paying it on the 15th (when there might be little or no penalty to them), because they can't afford to pay it out of the "right" check, and when they get hit with a 16-day delay in pay, suddenly they're a month late.
These people didn't know when the next paycheck was going to come. They knew they'd get it, but they didn't know if it'd be `1 day, 10 days or 100 days. Some of them likely had to make decisions about how to pay mortgages, car payments, buy groceries, etc. as soon as they missed a single paycheck.
There's plenty of shows I'd pay $0.99/episode to watch.
The alternative is simply not to watch it. I don't feel so entitled to everything that I can so easily scoff at the content producers trying to get what they think is fair value for their work.
As such, I don't see a lot of "good" shows on premium cable. They've set their prices and distribution model, and it doesn't appeal to me....but that doesn't mean it's not worth $0.99 - it just means that I choose to spend my money elsewhere. [There are more reasonably priced things than I care to buy...]
While I agree in principle, checkups are the sort of thing that your insurer prefers to pay for because it costs less to insure you if you get regular care.
So, yeah, you're "insuring" against regular fees, but your insurer pays less if you do go -- and if you had to pay out of pocket, you probably wouldn't....because we're lazy.
The primary purpose of the browser extension is to hide crap that you (the product) don't want to see, but advertisers (the customer) want you to see. Advertisers want to know who's clicking on trending crap - hiding it with a browser extension hurts Facebook's customers.
It also happens to have a few IU tweaks, like ENTER to carriage return.
Facebook has simply said that they're not going to keep providing a free platform for the distributor on it's own network.
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"1000" is the Navy's way of designating that this is the next generation of DDG, as it represents a major design and development departure from previous generations.
It's not so much a break in the numbering system, since the previous DD ships ended at 997.
Its hull number will be DDG-1000, which abandons the guided missile destroyer sequence used by the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG-51– ), and continues the previous "gun destroyer" sequence from the last of Spruance-class, USS Hayler (DD-997).
I'm sorry you don't want to sit in the middle seat between two fat guys, try booking before them next time.
They're not under any obligation to move for the comfort of Johnny-book-lastly.
99.99998% miss from extinction-level objects means that, on average, they kill a mere 1,400 people.
How do you reconcile that with the fact that flights get more expensive every year?
Well, I don't, since you're completely wrong.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-airline-ticket-prices-fell-50-in-30-years-and-why-nobody-noticed/273506/
In an ideal world, they'd balance their needs to run a cost efficient business with your desire to use their service and they'd end up with the sort of seats they have now.
Not for all seats, but the short answer is they already do.
Major airlines? Book at flight on USAir. Go to the map to select a seat. Notice that about half the map has a small premium charge.
Budget airlines? Book at flight on Spirit Air (if you dare). Every last option is a la carte - seat choice, bags, your soda, everything.
Seconded.
Purely in the interest of equality there should be a Man class with more legroom.
All in favor say aye.
Exactly, the seats are negligible in weight compared to the passengers themselves. I bet the extra 5-6 passengers easily outweigh the "lighter seats" by 10-30 times. Especially when you add any luggage and/or carryons....
Oh SNAP!
If only a smart guy like you worked for the airlines, and he could have figured out the average weight of a passenger with their luggage and figured this out in advance!
Any reasonably smart party of two will book the window and aisle hoping that the flight isn't at capacity and that the middle seat never fills.
When you're a single traveler looking a the last dozen seats available on an airplane, you'll almost always pick an open window or aisle before choosing a middle seat.
If their gamble is successful, they get three seats for the price of two.
If their gamble is unsuccessful, they get what they paid for, and often end up sitting together anyway, because they'll just trade with the grateful soul who got "upgraded" out of the middle to the aisle or window.
Also, some people are fat, yes.
Your first trade once per second is free.
I'm obviously a rube with regards to how the magic happens beyond "Strike first, strike fast, strike often!" but it's pretty fucking clear to everyone that Average Joe doesn't benefit one bit from this unless he's bought stock in SuperHFT TradeCo.
Nobody benefits from this except 1/100th of 1%'ers trying to move into the 1/1000th of 1%'ers at the sake of making sure that you or I can't possibly play, because the playing field is so un-level it's a miracle we don't slide right off it... ...after leaving our wallets.
The Mario character is copywrite protected.
I think if you punch a hole in the side of the floppy, you can write to it...
Which would be hand for AFTER you bought it, took it home and opened it....
A lot(tm).
There's a fantastic return on that, since it effectively increases my lifespan by 30%.
I mean, even a short nap instantly improves how you feel, anywhere from 5-15 minutes.
Not everyone responds well to short naps. I don't. I know I'm no alone. ...not simply trying to be contrary, just saying that short naps aren't for everyone.
While I agree, a delayed paycheck shouldn't cripple these people, some of them will get screwed because they were probably already living tight, paycheck to paycheck.
Lots of people with mortgages due on the 1st are already paying it on the 15th (when there might be little or no penalty to them), because they can't afford to pay it out of the "right" check, and when they get hit with a 16-day delay in pay, suddenly they're a month late.
These people didn't know when the next paycheck was going to come. They knew they'd get it, but they didn't know if it'd be `1 day, 10 days or 100 days. Some of them likely had to make decisions about how to pay mortgages, car payments, buy groceries, etc. as soon as they missed a single paycheck.
Assuming I valued all content the same, sure.
There's plenty of shows I'd pay $0.99/episode to watch.
The alternative is simply not to watch it. I don't feel so entitled to everything that I can so easily scoff at the content producers trying to get what they think is fair value for their work.
As such, I don't see a lot of "good" shows on premium cable. They've set their prices and distribution model, and it doesn't appeal to me. ...but that doesn't mean it's not worth $0.99 - it just means that I choose to spend my money elsewhere. [There are more reasonably priced things than I care to buy...]
While I agree in principle, checkups are the sort of thing that your insurer prefers to pay for because it costs less to insure you if you get regular care.
So, yeah, you're "insuring" against regular fees, but your insurer pays less if you do go -- and if you had to pay out of pocket, you probably wouldn't. ...because we're lazy.
Mostly because he's retarded...
You can certainly get a non-debit bank card.
Wells Fargo's look like this:
http://www.adamhunter.net/wallet2010/walletpics/8-atm.jpg
That's how long it took between stories with NSA in the headlines today.
A loophole is unintended.
If anyone thinks that the tax code and the ability to do exactly what Apple (and others) are doing isn't completely intention is an idiot.
Uh, no.
The primary purpose of the browser extension is to hide crap that you (the product) don't want to see, but advertisers (the customer) want you to see. Advertisers want to know who's clicking on trending crap - hiding it with a browser extension hurts Facebook's customers.
It also happens to have a few IU tweaks, like ENTER to carriage return.
Facebook has simply said that they're not going to keep providing a free platform for the distributor on it's own network.
[n.b. I use a similar extension, FB Purity.]
Well, we almost worked the NSA into every article headline today. ...there's always tomorrow.
I'm not the OP, but yup - that's it.
Wikipedia has a macro-scale image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Haiti
...correcting myself. The shot was 17 minutes, but was cut to 13.