Nobody needs to repeat that study, because like you said, it's not relevant.
But you know what is relevant? Instead of all that stuff going up in smoke, it now gets stored in giant piles of waste. Usually on site, but sometimes at an offsite disposal facility. Such fun things as; arsenic, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, chromium VI, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, thallium, and vanadium, along with dioxins and PAH compounds.
You know, I have a friend just like you. He has worked in low level IT for so long, he lost touch with LOTS of things. One of those things is being able to understand your machine so well that you can TELL it what to do. When I try to explain this to him, he looks at me with confusion and just says 'I'll just go out and find the program I need to get it to work". But the following week, he will be wondering why this software doesn't do EXACTLY what he wants.
When I tell him to just write a simple driver for the interface, the response is 'thats impossible, nobody can do that'... as if somehow his knowledge is at the limit, and nobody knows more than him.
track down the Yelper to a patient that was a drug seeking painkiller addict
If you are worried about your patients taking advice from a place like this, that's your problem. Pushing your paranoia off on your patients when they had nothing to do with it, demonstrates that you are not very professional.
If I heard any of the doctors I knew were doing this, I would immediately leave. In fact, I'll be asking each of them on my next visit.
Well then the competitor has a worse business model.
Yesterday was a perfect example of this. I am buying landscaping right now, and was pricing out bushes. The same bush that sold for $35 per bush at Home Depot, was selling online for $25 FOR TEN.
I am looking to do my job with the lowest cost to me, for the best quality. I am not looking to pay my money to subsidize a giant brick building being used to hold outdoor plants indoors.
It's that whole 'vote with your wallet' thing that people keep complaining that they are unable to do with the local phone/internet companies. Yet when they can do it, its suddenly unfair to the business that doesn't get chosen?
I can't ever remember any of my cables failing. Ever. Every single one of them is the 'cheap' version.
Some of them are well over 25+ years old (A/V jacks), and I cant tell any difference between them and my newer stuff.
Lets say for the sake of argument, you have an abnormal amount of failures. Lets say they only last 10yrs. In 20 years, you buy 2 sets of cables. Unless your 'audiophile stuff' is under 2X(not likely at all) the cost of those cheap cables, you are needlessly wasting money.
I paid 1.75 for my 5ft HDMI cables on Ebay, and less than $4 for a 10ft one. Are the 'audiophile' cables more than $3.50 for 5ft or over $7 for the 10ft? Or in an extreme case, they break every 5 years, having to replace them 4X. More than $8 for 5ft, and more than $15 for the 10ft is still a waste of money Even if you have yearly failures, you STILL would be wasting money buying the audiophile stuff. You basically are saying that your failures are on the order of every few MONTHS, for this to be considered a 'good idea'.
Yes, you are still buying like an idiot. No offense meant, just using your own words in the hopes it proves a point, and trying to 'rationalize it away' to not be one of those silly audiophiles, is actually exactly what is making you one.
You know, at some point you are going to have to go about the world with your eyes open, and not have to rely on others to point out the obviousness of that reality. I get it, you like Ron Paul. I used to like him too, but then I did my own digging into the background of the man who I was listening to. You know, because I like to find these things out on my own.
If you worked the night shift for the eternity of your life, enjoying every minute of it and not wanting anything to change, you may be unaware that such a thing as the sun really exists. When somebody comes along and makes the obvious statement that the sun rises in the East, asking for 'proof' to back that up is right up there at the height of hilarity.
Ron Paul has said MANY things that often contradict each other, on a regular basis. This isn't a classroom, so you will have to rely on yourself to learn about them. However, if I picked out only the things he said that are consistent, and published them, he would sound like a rather intelligent man. Unfortunately for him, in the larger picture when the sum of his ideas can be seen, he is not that same man.
If the link is from PC/Computer/NetworkWorld, it is probably a bunch of unconfirmed nonsense which will turn out to be false in the time it takes to blink your eye.
I'm no fan of Comcast, but I'm even less of a fan of PC World.
It didn't exactly take long for the real reasons to come out, which is that tpb had a server outage earlier. But hey, things like facts aren't important to PC World when you can just make things up.
You are right, I would never call someone stupid for that.
But thats not at all what happened here.
They made two of the 'low payments' at around $160/mo. After that, they wised up and decided it would be better to pay off the balance of around $800. It's quite obvious that lack of capital was not the problem here. Lack of sense was. ergo...
I would consider saving the money before buying it to be better, not worse. The cost is already ~$200/mo, with a few other cuts, they could easily get a laptop free and clear, FOR THEIR NEEDS, within 60 days of saving.
A laptop isnt exactly an emergency cost. In the story, it is described as being for the wife's new classes. She didn't just wake up one day with no warning whatsoever that classes were starting in 2 hours.
Well, in this case they are right. This guy has the math skills of a child. If he's lucky. Have you ever worked out the costs of that? Some of the rental ones around here end up being over 4X the price of outright buying it, over just 15 months of payments.
He shouldn't be allowed to sign a contract that involves math in any way whatsoever.
There was an ad around here not too long ago about something similar. While I was listening to it, they obviously mentioned the 'monthly price' and the length of the term. Before the commercial was over I had done the math in my head, and the laptop ended up costing almost 4X the amount it would have otherwise cost.
I imagine this is probably similar. Anyone who signs such a deal should immediately be enrolled in a math class that will sufficiently explain amortization costs in such a situation. They should then be able to pass an exam that proves they are aware of what the real cost is, in a single number, over the rental term.
There is a reason the phrase 'A fool and his money are soon parted' exists, I suppose.
Nothing bothers me more than hearing this whining. blah blah blah... I want things for free... blah blah blah...
If thats what you want, then GO GET IT.
Want to hear a dirty secret? My ATT internet will NOT be capped starting monday. Why not? Because I decided it would be a better idea to PAY FOR a business account. Those are not capped at ATT, or Comcast.
Yes, it is more expensive than 'residential' service, but it also meets my needs, has better reliability, etc. My Uverse biz acct is also cheaper(and about 10X faster) than the old business DSL I switched from.
Bottom line, you get what you pay for. So don't be surprised when your service gets lumped in with the lowest common denominator. Because, that's exactly what you are.
the 1.4km/yr is the rate at which the soil is becoming to salty to use for growing. It is not going under the water, the water table below becoming salty is making it unusable. The land above is still above sea level, but the effects of the ocean underneath that land is changing. You are free to check the source cited, it was provided to you. (Thanh Nhien News). Are you so lazy that you are unable to look at the site yourself, without a direct link holding your hand to get there?
You should make sure you understand the concepts involved before posting such trite nonsense.
I love Dave's. I took an entire mouthful of it at a bar one night, because my friends didnt think I enjoyed hot spices. Granted, if you have never had spicy food in your entire life, it may be quite a shock. But like anything else, once you are accustomed to a certain level of spice, it doesn't hurt that bad.
Yes, my eyes were watering, and I felt hot. And had I done something like that in the days before I ate such things, it might have been a very intense experience, much like you describe. It is a little like running a marathon, it hurts like hell at first, until that first time you get past 'the wall', when the endorphins kick in. After that, its quite a pleasurable experience, and it very difficult for someone who hasn't done it to imagine what it is like. The uninitiated, tend to think it is a linear response; the stronger means more painful for longer time. But much like running, after a certain amount of time and consumption(different for everyone) it is a very enjoyable experience.
I have done exactly this to one of the clients I had.
It was a small business, with about 10PC's around the office for the agents to use as needed. One of the agents kept whining that this certain computer was 'old' and therefore to slow for him to work on. It was keeping him from getting as much done as he thought he could.... or that was what he kept saying.
So, we talked with the owner of the company before rolling out our change; A brand new... case. Thats it, new case. Same guts, same hardware, same everything... but the case.
Suddenly, this was the 'fastest' computer in the office(yes, all the computers were exactly the same hardware), and the complaining stopped(for awhile)
As was expected, this did NOT increase this persons productivity. As was explained to the owner before the upgrade, this person was using every excuse in the book to get away with doing as little work as possible. It was always some external factor that was the problem. This happens a lot with people who do nothing more than what we lked to call 'play office'. They sit in the required space, show their face, but don't actually contribute anything meaningful but body heat in the winter time.
By definition, stupid people are EASY to manipulate. Use them to your advantage, or suffer the fools forever.
Why? I quite clearly remember the science course I took over the summer in 4th grade. Not because I had to, but because my parents thought it was important that I had a good education. Most of our class time involved going out to a local pond to learn about the life that inhabits it. On the applied side, it was demonstrated to us how the discovery of the microscope led to an upending of the accepted beliefs at the time. To do this, we were all given glass slides and vials to collect various selected organisms from the water, that could only be seen under a microscope. A biological scavenger hunt, so to speak.
Since Darwin came after Leeuwenhoek, our next lesson was about evolution, and it had similar applications and demonstrations that we had to carry out. All this learning was going on as lowly(in your eyes) fourth graders.
There is no age that is too young for anyone to learn. Just because you were incapable of understanding something at a certain age, does not mean everyone is.
To answer your question about the last time it was critical that I understood evolution. That would be last month when I decided it was time to get my TDaP booster vaccine shot. Because I understand the concepts involved in the bigger picture, I was able to make a critical choice as to how to handle my health. And here lies the problem with your line of thinking, that because there is not an immediate cause-effect relationship, it does not seem critical to you. But life is a sequence of events, with some of them very dependent on previous choices that are separated by large distances in time. An inability to correctly asses how to deal with events that happen over different times, leads to possible(and probable) DEATH over another amount of measured time and clearly defined circumstances.
My initial reaction was more along the lines of "That sounds unlikely" than "Burn them!".
My initial response was;
It's a Network World/IT World article, so its probably made up garbage that will be debunked within hours.
And look at that... it was. Shocking.
I have a friend who likes to sent me IT World articles. It's become a running joke how bad their articles are written. Well, a joke to me at least, he still thinks they are some sort of reputable news source for all things IT and that I am just 'picking on them'.
Slashdot Mirror
Nobody needs to repeat that study, because like you said, it's not relevant.
But you know what is relevant? Instead of all that stuff going up in smoke, it now gets stored in giant piles of waste. Usually on site, but sometimes at an offsite disposal facility. Such fun things as; arsenic, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, chromium VI, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, thallium, and vanadium, along with dioxins and PAH compounds.
Perfectly safe, until this happens that is.
always remain unknown?
You know, I have a friend just like you. He has worked in low level IT for so long, he lost touch with LOTS of things. One of those things is being able to understand your machine so well that you can TELL it what to do. When I try to explain this to him, he looks at me with confusion and just says 'I'll just go out and find the program I need to get it to work". But the following week, he will be wondering why this software doesn't do EXACTLY what he wants.
When I tell him to just write a simple driver for the interface, the response is 'thats impossible, nobody can do that'... as if somehow his knowledge is at the limit, and nobody knows more than him.
You seem to be well on this same path.
track down the Yelper to a patient that was a drug seeking painkiller addict
If you are worried about your patients taking advice from a place like this, that's your problem. Pushing your paranoia off on your patients when they had nothing to do with it, demonstrates that you are not very professional.
If I heard any of the doctors I knew were doing this, I would immediately leave. In fact, I'll be asking each of them on my next visit.
So. Who else clicked on the article to see if the guys name was 'John'?
Well then the competitor has a worse business model.
Yesterday was a perfect example of this. I am buying landscaping right now, and was pricing out bushes. The same bush that sold for $35 per bush at Home Depot, was selling online for $25 FOR TEN.
I am looking to do my job with the lowest cost to me, for the best quality. I am not looking to pay my money to subsidize a giant brick building being used to hold outdoor plants indoors.
It's that whole 'vote with your wallet' thing that people keep complaining that they are unable to do with the local phone/internet companies. Yet when they can do it, its suddenly unfair to the business that doesn't get chosen?
This is a classic!
I LOVE that first comment from John L. ( no spoilers here, seriously everyone should go read it, you won't regret it)
You win one internet for pointing this out to me.
I can't ever remember any of my cables failing. Ever. Every single one of them is the 'cheap' version.
Some of them are well over 25+ years old (A/V jacks), and I cant tell any difference between them and my newer stuff.
Lets say for the sake of argument, you have an abnormal amount of failures. Lets say they only last 10yrs. In 20 years, you buy 2 sets of cables. Unless your 'audiophile stuff' is under 2X(not likely at all) the cost of those cheap cables, you are needlessly wasting money.
I paid 1.75 for my 5ft HDMI cables on Ebay, and less than $4 for a 10ft one. Are the 'audiophile' cables more than $3.50 for 5ft or over $7 for the 10ft? Or in an extreme case, they break every 5 years, having to replace them 4X. More than $8 for 5ft, and more than $15 for the 10ft is still a waste of money Even if you have yearly failures, you STILL would be wasting money buying the audiophile stuff. You basically are saying that your failures are on the order of every few MONTHS, for this to be considered a 'good idea'. Yes, you are still buying like an idiot. No offense meant, just using your own words in the hopes it proves a point, and trying to 'rationalize it away' to not be one of those silly audiophiles, is actually exactly what is making you one.
How about backing it up
You know, at some point you are going to have to go about the world with your eyes open, and not have to rely on others to point out the obviousness of that reality. I get it, you like Ron Paul. I used to like him too, but then I did my own digging into the background of the man who I was listening to. You know, because I like to find these things out on my own.
If you worked the night shift for the eternity of your life, enjoying every minute of it and not wanting anything to change, you may be unaware that such a thing as the sun really exists. When somebody comes along and makes the obvious statement that the sun rises in the East, asking for 'proof' to back that up is right up there at the height of hilarity.
Ron Paul has said MANY things that often contradict each other, on a regular basis. This isn't a classroom, so you will have to rely on yourself to learn about them. However, if I picked out only the things he said that are consistent, and published them, he would sound like a rather intelligent man. Unfortunately for him, in the larger picture when the sum of his ideas can be seen, he is not that same man.
because maybe he's for individual rights
Sure, if you are white.
If the link is from PC/Computer/NetworkWorld, it is probably a bunch of unconfirmed nonsense which will turn out to be false in the time it takes to blink your eye.
I'm no fan of Comcast, but I'm even less of a fan of PC World. It didn't exactly take long for the real reasons to come out, which is that tpb had a server outage earlier. But hey, things like facts aren't important to PC World when you can just make things up.
You are right, I would never call someone stupid for that.
But thats not at all what happened here.
They made two of the 'low payments' at around $160/mo. After that, they wised up and decided it would be better to pay off the balance of around $800. It's quite obvious that lack of capital was not the problem here. Lack of sense was. ergo...
their choices actually get worse, not better.
I would consider saving the money before buying it to be better, not worse. The cost is already ~$200/mo, with a few other cuts, they could easily get a laptop free and clear, FOR THEIR NEEDS, within 60 days of saving.
A laptop isnt exactly an emergency cost. In the story, it is described as being for the wife's new classes. She didn't just wake up one day with no warning whatsoever that classes were starting in 2 hours.
Well, in this case they are right. This guy has the math skills of a child. If he's lucky. Have you ever worked out the costs of that? Some of the rental ones around here end up being over 4X the price of outright buying it, over just 15 months of payments.
He shouldn't be allowed to sign a contract that involves math in any way whatsoever.
There was an ad around here not too long ago about something similar. While I was listening to it, they obviously mentioned the 'monthly price' and the length of the term. Before the commercial was over I had done the math in my head, and the laptop ended up costing almost 4X the amount it would have otherwise cost.
I imagine this is probably similar. Anyone who signs such a deal should immediately be enrolled in a math class that will sufficiently explain amortization costs in such a situation. They should then be able to pass an exam that proves they are aware of what the real cost is, in a single number, over the rental term.
There is a reason the phrase 'A fool and his money are soon parted' exists, I suppose.
Nothing bothers me more than hearing this whining. blah blah blah... I want things for free... blah blah blah...
If thats what you want, then GO GET IT.
Want to hear a dirty secret? My ATT internet will NOT be capped starting monday. Why not? Because I decided it would be a better idea to PAY FOR a business account. Those are not capped at ATT, or Comcast.
Yes, it is more expensive than 'residential' service, but it also meets my needs, has better reliability, etc. My Uverse biz acct is also cheaper(and about 10X faster) than the old business DSL I switched from.
Bottom line, you get what you pay for. So don't be surprised when your service gets lumped in with the lowest common denominator. Because, that's exactly what you are.
Get over yourself.
You fail at option analysis.... badly.
There is no law, there is just an equation. It must always be balanced.
The Equation must be balanced
the 1.4km/yr is the rate at which the soil is becoming to salty to use for growing. It is not going under the water, the water table below becoming salty is making it unusable. The land above is still above sea level, but the effects of the ocean underneath that land is changing. You are free to check the source cited, it was provided to you. (Thanh Nhien News). Are you so lazy that you are unable to look at the site yourself, without a direct link holding your hand to get there?
You should make sure you understand the concepts involved before posting such trite nonsense.
I was cooking once using daves insanity hot sauce
I love Dave's. I took an entire mouthful of it at a bar one night, because my friends didnt think I enjoyed hot spices. Granted, if you have never had spicy food in your entire life, it may be quite a shock. But like anything else, once you are accustomed to a certain level of spice, it doesn't hurt that bad.
Yes, my eyes were watering, and I felt hot. And had I done something like that in the days before I ate such things, it might have been a very intense experience, much like you describe. It is a little like running a marathon, it hurts like hell at first, until that first time you get past 'the wall', when the endorphins kick in. After that, its quite a pleasurable experience, and it very difficult for someone who hasn't done it to imagine what it is like. The uninitiated, tend to think it is a linear response; the stronger means more painful for longer time. But much like running, after a certain amount of time and consumption(different for everyone) it is a very enjoyable experience.
I don't get it - what's the point?
It releases quite pleasurable natural drugs in your brain.
Endorphins
It's a legal drug, for now.
I have done exactly this to one of the clients I had.
It was a small business, with about 10PC's around the office for the agents to use as needed. One of the agents kept whining that this certain computer was 'old' and therefore to slow for him to work on. It was keeping him from getting as much done as he thought he could.... or that was what he kept saying.
So, we talked with the owner of the company before rolling out our change; A brand new... case. Thats it, new case. Same guts, same hardware, same everything... but the case.
Suddenly, this was the 'fastest' computer in the office(yes, all the computers were exactly the same hardware), and the complaining stopped(for awhile)
As was expected, this did NOT increase this persons productivity. As was explained to the owner before the upgrade, this person was using every excuse in the book to get away with doing as little work as possible. It was always some external factor that was the problem. This happens a lot with people who do nothing more than what we lked to call 'play office'. They sit in the required space, show their face, but don't actually contribute anything meaningful but body heat in the winter time.
By definition, stupid people are EASY to manipulate. Use them to your advantage, or suffer the fools forever.
which can range from 38 to 54 km/sec
At that point though, you will be on FIRE.
just like a meteor
That is why it is called 'slang'.
It is not supposed to mean what the original definition is.
If you are old enough, you would probably have taken people to task for misusing the word 'square'. Which amusingly enough, would have made you one :)
To teach evolution in fourth grade is stupid
Why? I quite clearly remember the science course I took over the summer in 4th grade. Not because I had to, but because my parents thought it was important that I had a good education. Most of our class time involved going out to a local pond to learn about the life that inhabits it. On the applied side, it was demonstrated to us how the discovery of the microscope led to an upending of the accepted beliefs at the time. To do this, we were all given glass slides and vials to collect various selected organisms from the water, that could only be seen under a microscope. A biological scavenger hunt, so to speak.
Since Darwin came after Leeuwenhoek, our next lesson was about evolution, and it had similar applications and demonstrations that we had to carry out. All this learning was going on as lowly(in your eyes) fourth graders.
There is no age that is too young for anyone to learn. Just because you were incapable of understanding something at a certain age, does not mean everyone is.
To answer your question about the last time it was critical that I understood evolution. That would be last month when I decided it was time to get my TDaP booster vaccine shot. Because I understand the concepts involved in the bigger picture, I was able to make a critical choice as to how to handle my health. And here lies the problem with your line of thinking, that because there is not an immediate cause-effect relationship, it does not seem critical to you. But life is a sequence of events, with some of them very dependent on previous choices that are separated by large distances in time. An inability to correctly asses how to deal with events that happen over different times, leads to possible(and probable) DEATH over another amount of measured time and clearly defined circumstances.
My initial reaction was more along the lines of "That sounds unlikely" than "Burn them!".
My initial response was;
It's a Network World/IT World article, so its probably made up garbage that will be debunked within hours.
And look at that... it was. Shocking.
I have a friend who likes to sent me IT World articles. It's become a running joke how bad their articles are written. Well, a joke to me at least, he still thinks they are some sort of reputable news source for all things IT and that I am just 'picking on them'.