Healthy food costs less than shitty food. Some examples:
A gallon of water costs less than a gallon of soda.
A pound of frozen vegetables costs less than a pound candy.
A pound of chicken costs less than a pound of hamburger.
A dozen eggs costs less than a dozen candy eggs.
A pound of potatoes costs less than a pound of potato-chips.
I think maybe you should count the calories and not the weight of the product. For example, assuming that I wanted to eat 2000 calories a day I would need ~6 pounds of potatoes, and less than 1 pound of potato chips.
What kind of "problem" would that be? If your father is not providing adequate customer service such that customers seek redress from their credit card company, maybe the problem isn't the credit card?
Do I have to spell it out for you? "Credit card owner called and they do not recognize the charge because their card was stolen" qualifies as a charge-back problem. And because the items are sent within a day or two, it will often happen after the purchase has already been sent.
The point is -- just because you, as a consumer, do not have to pay the costs of stolen credit cards, do not assume that a faceless credit-card corporation will eat these costs. In reality, it will not.
That's the thing about CREDIT cards, the customer generally doesn't take the financial fall for fraud.
Maybe not, but Visa/Mastercard might just pass the pain onto the retailers. My dad runs a small business, and usually if there is any problem with a credit card charge, Visa/MC will extract money back from him in a blink of an eye.
Not if he has a higher salary at the new place, which he probably will.
Tony Trenkle, chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), sent an e-mail to co-workers on Tuesday that said he will be leaving on November 15 "to take a position in the private sector." Apparently, Trenkle's resignation isn't directly a result of the bungled Web site,
Do they still get paid for the steaming pile of shit they created? Absolutely. Will they continue to get government contracts after this blows over? Absolutely. This is a PR move.
It's not just a PR move. It is also an opportunity to pay half-a-billion to another contractor next. Before hiring a 3rd contractor to do the same.
CGI has already received their $678 million dollars.
Right, how about the government sues CGI for $678+damages? That would free up some funds to pay the next contractor. Or is that too many "legal ramifications"?
"Governs least governs best" - it is time to shrink the Federal government and pull it's teeth by pulling the purse strings tight.
Let's do it! You will need to form a new political party first, however, because neither R or D have any actual interest in doing that (regardless of what they might say).
if their governing body declared war, they'd fight the battle, and then all members of the governing body that voted for the war were put to death.
Maybe that's why modern wars are endless. Even if we were to put the governing body to death after the "War on Terror" ended, they would be perfectly safe, because "wars on concept" do not end.
When I traveled to Europe, met foreign exchange students, or engaged with family friends who were from other countries, I was consistently impressed by their casual grasp of mathematics, history, and philosophy.
It is worth noting that in my experience, "foreign exchange students" do not accurately represent the overall population. Average and below-average students are far more likely to stay where they are.
Your family friends are probably not a random/average sample either.
These has never been a single reputable study by anyone anywhere that has shown GMO anything to be unhealthy.
I know very little about the topic, but a short search shows that at least someone published anti-GMO results and lost about 36 years worth of a career as a result. See Arpad Pusztai.
They pay plenty of taxes, including payroll taxes,
H1-B employees get a significantly lower salary. That very much reduces the payroll taxes that they end up paying. If H1-B employees actually received comparable salary and could easily jump ship to another company, the problem would resolve itself (i.e. they would only be hired when local talent is indeed unavailable)
This submitter has the typical Slashdot FOSS douchebag attitude. This case has NOTHING TO DO with open source software, yet you can always find a way to jam it in there eh?
I am sure that timothy (not the submitter, btw) had done due diligence research and verified that Apptricity offerings are also available or nearly-available in a viable FOSS project. Because otherwise it would be irresponsible to make such statements:
$50 million in tax money could have paid for a whole lot of open source software development, instead.
they think they know what they're doing, but when you ask them an SQL question they use a sequence of nested queries without any join statements.
And what exactly is wrong with that?
Query optimizer will generally convert a nested query into a join when necessary. And for a non-correlated nested query (and possibly some particularly shaped indexes) nesting is probably a better answer to begin with.
The company said it has no plans to sell any information collected through a cloud service connected to the devices
And you'd be an idiot to think they won't silently change this in an EULA update.
They don't have to!
There currently are "no plans", mostly because they first need to collect the data before they can properly price it.
It would also be able to restrict talking or texting on a smartphone while a vehicle is in operation.
Ok, that is just creepy. How about extending that to forced ads? "Watch this commercial and you can talk on your phone for the next two days while you are driving"
Please, oh please(!), try this shit with me. I really need the money and wiping you off the internet would not only be profitable, but highly satisfying as well.
Love,
AC
And those of us with real names and addresses should admit that we do not actually have the resources to fight a court battle with a company, regardless of how right we might be.
Snowden may likely say show that it was used abused in practice, and the NSA likely wants to say that they prevented a suspected domestic terrorist.
NSA will also probably claim that they were going to release/review this material anyway, and Snowden just forced them to do it too early (thus jeopardizing security, etc, etc.)
I found it fascinating when Obama made these claims -- that he was going to review and fix the entire NSA program any day now and that Snowden just forced him to do it in a rush instead of carefully.
Zynga, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Skype, and the list keeps on growing.
I think you forgot Facebook:)
Investors know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Big investors that got preferential price (and early access to all relevant information) made out just fine. The mere mortal investors might lose money, but that's a feature, not a bug.
Slashdot Mirror
No, but his money and property has. Civil Forfeiture law is insane.
So.... They are going to return his bitcoins if he is found innocent in a court of law, right??
Healthy food costs less than shitty food. Some examples:
A gallon of water costs less than a gallon of soda.
A pound of frozen vegetables costs less than a pound candy.
A pound of chicken costs less than a pound of hamburger.
A dozen eggs costs less than a dozen candy eggs.
A pound of potatoes costs less than a pound of potato-chips.
I think maybe you should count the calories and not the weight of the product.
For example, assuming that I wanted to eat 2000 calories a day I would need ~6 pounds of potatoes, and less than 1 pound of potato chips.
What kind of "problem" would that be? If your father is not providing adequate customer service such that customers seek redress from their credit card company, maybe the problem isn't the credit card?
Do I have to spell it out for you? "Credit card owner called and they do not recognize the charge because their card was stolen" qualifies as a charge-back problem. And because the items are sent within a day or two, it will often happen after the purchase has already been sent.
The point is -- just because you, as a consumer, do not have to pay the costs of stolen credit cards, do not assume that a faceless credit-card corporation will eat these costs. In reality, it will not.
That's the thing about CREDIT cards, the customer generally doesn't take the financial fall for fraud.
Maybe not, but Visa/Mastercard might just pass the pain onto the retailers.
My dad runs a small business, and usually if there is any problem with a credit card charge, Visa/MC will extract money back from him in a blink of an eye.
Resignations don't count?
Not if he has a higher salary at the new place, which he probably will.
Tony Trenkle, chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), sent an e-mail to co-workers on Tuesday that said he will be leaving on November 15 "to take a position in the private sector." Apparently, Trenkle's resignation isn't directly a result of the bungled Web site,
Do they still get paid for the steaming pile of shit they created? Absolutely. Will they continue to get government contracts after this blows over? Absolutely. This is a PR move.
It's not just a PR move.
It is also an opportunity to pay half-a-billion to another contractor next. Before hiring a 3rd contractor to do the same.
CGI has already received their $678 million dollars.
Right, how about the government sues CGI for $678+damages? That would free up some funds to pay the next contractor. Or is that too many "legal ramifications"?
so there could be -10 asteroids worth mining?
These are the Soviet Russia asteroids.
Because in Soviet Russia, the asteroids mine you!
"Governs least governs best" - it is time to shrink the Federal government and pull it's teeth by pulling the purse strings tight.
Let's do it! You will need to form a new political party first, however, because neither R or D have any actual interest in doing that (regardless of what they might say).
A. Increased use of targeted drone warfare(promise too well kept, good god)
Obama and McCain were competing how much they will increase drone use. McCain promised even more drones in more places.
B. Out of Iraq(yeah, sorta)
Because Iraq wouldn't give US troops immunity from prosecution. If Iraq agreed to grant immunity, the troops might still be there.
Therefore, many / most "Likes" are meaningless CfC's. IMO.
Particularly meaningless without "DisLikes".
What does 100 "Likes" mean without knowing if there are 10 "DisLikes" or 1000 "DisLikes" that go with it?
if their governing body declared war, they'd fight the battle, and then all members of the governing body that voted for the war were put to death.
Maybe that's why modern wars are endless. Even if we were to put the governing body to death after the "War on Terror" ended, they would be perfectly safe, because "wars on concept" do not end.
When I traveled to Europe, met foreign exchange students, or engaged with family friends who were from other countries, I was consistently impressed by their casual grasp of mathematics, history, and philosophy.
It is worth noting that in my experience, "foreign exchange students" do not accurately represent the overall population. Average and below-average students are far more likely to stay where they are.
Your family friends are probably not a random/average sample either.
These has never been a single reputable study by anyone anywhere that has shown GMO anything to be unhealthy.
I know very little about the topic, but a short search shows that at least someone published anti-GMO results and lost about 36 years worth of a career as a result. See Arpad Pusztai.
So if you raise $100k, then you might only get around $67k.
And that is going to be taxable income, too. So good luck getting even half of the funds.
To me, none of Snowden's revelations were particularly surprising. The NSA is a spy agency by charter.
Weren't you surprised by a revelation that a single person working at NSA could get that much data and walk away with it?
They pay plenty of taxes, including payroll taxes,
H1-B employees get a significantly lower salary. That very much reduces the payroll taxes that they end up paying. If H1-B employees actually received comparable salary and could easily jump ship to another company, the problem would resolve itself (i.e. they would only be hired when local talent is indeed unavailable)
Almost 100% of all coal is shipped to electricity providers. Reliability and Economies of Scale.
You can buffer a supply of coal and survive a shipping delay
What happens with your Cloud data access during internet outage on either side?
This submitter has the typical Slashdot FOSS douchebag attitude. This case has NOTHING TO DO with open source software, yet you can always find a way to jam it in there eh?
I am sure that timothy (not the submitter, btw) had done due diligence research and verified that Apptricity offerings are also available or nearly-available in a viable FOSS project. Because otherwise it would be irresponsible to make such statements:
$50 million in tax money could have paid for a whole lot of open source software development, instead.
they think they know what they're doing, but when you ask them an SQL question they use a sequence of nested queries without any join statements.
And what exactly is wrong with that?
Query optimizer will generally convert a nested query into a join when necessary. And for a non-correlated nested query (and possibly some particularly shaped indexes) nesting is probably a better answer to begin with.
The company said it has no plans to sell any information collected through a cloud service connected to the devices
And you'd be an idiot to think they won't silently change this in an EULA update.
They don't have to!
There currently are "no plans", mostly because they first need to collect the data before they can properly price it.
It would also be able to restrict talking or texting on a smartphone while a vehicle is in operation.
Ok, that is just creepy. How about extending that to forced ads?
"Watch this commercial and you can talk on your phone for the next two days while you are driving"
They should assume that hostile agencies (foreign *and* domestic) have tapped every last network link they own.
I am sure they knew all along. They were fine with it
Everyone is making noise now, because it became public and there is some concern over backlash from the users.
Please, oh please(!), try this shit with me. I really need the money and wiping you off the internet would not only be profitable, but highly satisfying as well. Love, AC
And those of us with real names and addresses should admit that we do not actually have the resources to fight a court battle with a company, regardless of how right we might be.
Snowden may likely say show that it was used abused in practice, and the NSA likely wants to say that they prevented a suspected domestic terrorist.
NSA will also probably claim that they were going to release/review this material anyway, and Snowden just forced them to do it too early (thus jeopardizing security, etc, etc.)
I found it fascinating when Obama made these claims -- that he was going to review and fix the entire NSA program any day now and that Snowden just forced him to do it in a rush instead of carefully.
Zynga, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Skype, and the list keeps on growing.
I think you forgot Facebook :)
Investors know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Big investors that got preferential price (and early access to all relevant information) made out just fine. The mere mortal investors might lose money, but that's a feature, not a bug.