If they're not smart enough to just make the whole hood one piece of sheet metal to start with, and instead actually make a hinged hood and then weld it shut, why would I buy from them?
That was really odd, I went into a subnest of comments below my threshold, and I had a popunder on close... Ran latest Ad-Aware, no spyware installed. My fault for not having fired up Mozilla, or better yet, having made it my default browser...
I reloaded the comment I had the pop-under on after, and no pop-under. This is kinda odd.
Has anyone else noticed the large increase in the number of robot related stories here lately? Beats SCO anyway.... Waitaminnute! Robots beating SCO! Perfect!
My late Grandmother had something similar, though it was caused by a pressure buildup of fluid on the brain. Also dependent on Alzheimers etc. (Was not a good time).
However, whenever the pressure outside got higher, she got feeling worse, until a shunt was put in to let the pressure drain.
Seeing a head doctor (not a shrink : ) ) might help, I think a CAT scan may be required, I don't really know, I was busy being rather young & traumatized during the whole thing.
Incidentally, to all those who've lost a friend/family member to Alzheimers or another Protein problem... Consider joining the Fold. It's a distributed computing project. Find out more here
Fold for team #93 while you're at it, we need more folders. (And I HIGHLY reccomend the "No Nonsense Console Version" (Or even Beta version 3.25) )
Some. Not steel, not at any appreciable thickness.
I gotta be getting trolled... but I can't help but think someone believes that what can happen in small amounts under extreme conditions is a day-to-day happening.
I know the above is an AC, so modding down won't help much... but "Units can stay powered for up to two months in the field, and can be later collected and re-used. Each node costs around $10,000. Together, they are cheaper, less like a huge warm cock and a much less obvious target for enemy intervention than the aircraft-based systems used to jam or monitor communications at the moment." wasn't in any other copy of the article... At least not the warm cock part.
[if stealsig == true]"They have a cave troll!" "Mod him down!"
That'll be a hard name to pull by the committees. GASERS or Gamma ray Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (I may have those last two wrong).
So we're building gamma-ray shooting guns... Like lasers, but higher energy, and thus, with more chances of cell mutation & general badness. I'll call 'em nuclear weapons for now, and maybe later, only inhumane.
Now, it's kinda like I've got options with the company, that'll pay for college if our stock hits 70... but we're rated as a "Buy" by most of the tracking institutions.
Again, my view on this is skewed, don't use my word for anything, ever, don't indemnify me for anything, IANAL, Etc. : )
Many places do have complicated paperwork. Some don't. I've never filed an insurance claim, I've only stopped being a legal "minor" in the past two years.
There should be ways to make it easier, and though I'm not sure electronic claims are the way to go, one soloution not always thought of, is contacting a representative of the company or your issuing agent. Again, I don't know how this works out, but it's nice to know you weren't trolling : )
Actually, insurance really isn't. Note to pundits: I do work at an insurance company, albeit as a technology-related intern.
This year my company had it's highest amount of money made in a long time off of premiums. After cat damages (mass catastrophies are tracked differently due to reinsurance.... it's a long idea, and I'm not sure I could explain it well)... anyway, after all damages and claims paid out, our company made 96% return on premium.
That is to say, for each dollar collected in Premiums for policies, we paid out.96 cents.
This was astonishing for the finacial analyist! Most of the time, these numbers are around 114 or 108. That means on the property/casualaty side of the insurance agencies, the company loses money on all premiums collected. (Not as a result, but it's a good ratio to be able to judge the industry).
Anyway, Insurance companies make most of their money off of Investments in Bond/Stock markets. Insurance companies really are brokerages of a sort. Say your company has a 401k-ish plan. That money gets paid under a group header to an insurance company. That company, to make money for itself and you, invests in bonds (at my company) and stocks (at some others... we don't need huge returns with large sums of money, especially for huge risks). With the money the company has invested, it makes money.
Insurance is not a sham, it operates under the assumptions that finacial analysits can make more money than a random algorithm that buys stock/bonds/futures/money-market shares.
Note, I am a 2nd year intern here, I know insurance from presentations, and a mother who works in the industry. This information is not guarenteed to be true, but I'm pretty sure this is how it works. Take a look at quarterly earnings reports from Insurance companies... look at the combined ratios.
Insurance companies, at least my insurance company, are not out there to screw policy holders. We rather like ours. We don't like fraud, fraud is.... fraudulent. I didn't have a high opinion of insurance either until I found out how it worked.
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If they're not smart enough to just make the whole hood one piece of sheet metal to start with, and instead actually make a hinged hood and then weld it shut, why would I buy from them?
Think about it, no?
The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair.
That was really odd, I went into a subnest of comments below my threshold, and I had a popunder on close... Ran latest Ad-Aware, no spyware installed. My fault for not having fired up Mozilla, or better yet, having made it my default browser...
I reloaded the comment I had the pop-under on after, and no pop-under. This is kinda odd.
... I hate you.
But I bet I can solve the whole crack-challenge, did everyone try Joshua as login first?
They end their comment with: "###"
Perhaps at least someone got the joke that they were bashing Linux?
Right, I'm going to go back to writing shell scripts now, and then shooting myself for making this connection in my mind, much less this post.
If I don't register for more than two more months, what does the price become then?
I for one welcome...
Has anyone else noticed the large increase in the number of robot related stories here lately? Beats SCO anyway.... Waitaminnute! Robots beating SCO! Perfect!
My late Grandmother had something similar, though it was caused by a pressure buildup of fluid on the brain. Also dependent on Alzheimers etc. (Was not a good time).
However, whenever the pressure outside got higher, she got feeling worse, until a shunt was put in to let the pressure drain.
Seeing a head doctor (not a shrink : ) ) might help, I think a CAT scan may be required, I don't really know, I was busy being rather young & traumatized during the whole thing.
Incidentally, to all those who've lost a friend/family member to Alzheimers or another Protein problem... Consider joining the Fold. It's a distributed computing project. Find out more here
Fold for team #93 while you're at it, we need more folders. (And I HIGHLY reccomend the "No Nonsense Console Version" (Or even Beta version 3.25) )
I'll stop now. Thanks : )
[ scientist in forest ]
[ bumbling around ]
[ See REALLY LARGE tree ]
[ Takes Sample ]
[ Ents Crush Him, after much deliberation ]
Fini.
Fine...
In Soviet Russia Trees run from yew!
I hate myself sometimes.
Some. Not steel, not at any appreciable thickness.
I gotta be getting trolled... but I can't help but think someone believes that what can happen in small amounts under extreme conditions is a day-to-day happening.
if someone breaks into MS WindowsUpdate servers, he could install ANYTHING on millions of computers!
wow... scary...
Yeah, like Windows. : )
6" by 4". Think 16cm by 11cm.
However, seeing the army drop vaporators on the desert would probably make it look a lot more like a small area in Tunisia.
I know the above is an AC, so modding down won't help much... but "Units can stay powered for up to two months in the field, and can be later collected and re-used. Each node costs around $10,000. Together, they are cheaper, less like a huge warm cock and a much less obvious target for enemy intervention than the aircraft-based systems used to jam or monitor communications at the moment." wasn't in any other copy of the article... At least not the warm cock part.
[if stealsig == true]"They have a cave troll!" "Mod him down!"
That'll be a hard name to pull by the committees. GASERS or Gamma ray Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (I may have those last two wrong).
So we're building gamma-ray shooting guns... Like lasers, but higher energy, and thus, with more chances of cell mutation & general badness. I'll call 'em nuclear weapons for now, and maybe later, only inhumane.
All you need a is good source of Brownian motion. Say a good hot cup of tea...
Stop basing inflammatory comments on knowledge you don't have.
/Whine ]
[ Whine ] But it's *sooo* much easier that way! [
"The Brooklyn Bridge wants to meet you".
This opens up a whole slew of new problems for William "The Refrigerator" Perry.
They ruined Max's Face. Noooooooo!
As long as the folks who made Kung-Fu mod can still work their magic, I'm in.
Didn't know that. Thanks though... Perhaps I'll (need to) start keeping closer tabs on this now.
Just release the infringing code lines so we can comment it out, doom your profits, and get on with our lives!
Incidentally, they claim 2.5 kernels too... is that new? I thought only 2.4 was an issue.
Yeah, suprised the hell outta some of the analysts I'd imagine: For reference, and terms that I don't understand, but that you might: 2nd Quarter Press Release and Yahoo! Earnings Report and Yahoo! Headlines
Now, it's kinda like I've got options with the company, that'll pay for college if our stock hits 70... but we're rated as a "Buy" by most of the tracking institutions.
Again, my view on this is skewed, don't use my word for anything, ever, don't indemnify me for anything, IANAL, Etc. : )
I'll agree, and disagree with you.
Many places do have complicated paperwork. Some don't. I've never filed an insurance claim, I've only stopped being a legal "minor" in the past two years.
There should be ways to make it easier, and though I'm not sure electronic claims are the way to go, one soloution not always thought of, is contacting a representative of the company or your issuing agent. Again, I don't know how this works out, but it's nice to know you weren't trolling : )
For The Hartford Insurance Group's 2nd Quarter:
Combined ratio of 99.7 overall in North American P&C, which includes 4.7 points of combined ratio of catastrophe losses.
Combined ratio of 94.4 in Business Insurance, including catastrophe losses--the lowest combined ratio since The Hartford has been a public company.
Actually, insurance really isn't. Note to pundits: I do work at an insurance company, albeit as a technology-related intern.
.96 cents.
This year my company had it's highest amount of money made in a long time off of premiums. After cat damages (mass catastrophies are tracked differently due to reinsurance.... it's a long idea, and I'm not sure I could explain it well)... anyway, after all damages and claims paid out, our company made 96% return on premium.
That is to say, for each dollar collected in Premiums for policies, we paid out
This was astonishing for the finacial analyist! Most of the time, these numbers are around 114 or 108. That means on the property/casualaty side of the insurance agencies, the company loses money on all premiums collected. (Not as a result, but it's a good ratio to be able to judge the industry).
Anyway, Insurance companies make most of their money off of Investments in Bond/Stock markets. Insurance companies really are brokerages of a sort. Say your company has a 401k-ish plan. That money gets paid under a group header to an insurance company. That company, to make money for itself and you, invests in bonds (at my company) and stocks (at some others... we don't need huge returns with large sums of money, especially for huge risks). With the money the company has invested, it makes money.
Insurance is not a sham, it operates under the assumptions that finacial analysits can make more money than a random algorithm that buys stock/bonds/futures/money-market shares.
Note, I am a 2nd year intern here, I know insurance from presentations, and a mother who works in the industry. This information is not guarenteed to be true, but I'm pretty sure this is how it works. Take a look at quarterly earnings reports from Insurance companies... look at the combined ratios.
Insurance companies, at least my insurance company, are not out there to screw policy holders. We rather like ours. We don't like fraud, fraud is.... fraudulent. I didn't have a high opinion of insurance either until I found out how it worked.