How about "what makes you think that you would be better for this position?" or "Do you really want to work for a company that has no qualms about bringing somebody with no knowledge in to be a supervisor rather than promote someone from within?" After all, it may work out well this time for the interviewee, but the next outside placement they do may be HIS (or HER) boss.
In my area, Community College tuition is free to local residents. Books are extra and residency and a lot of other stuff, but the coursework itself is free. Or free after having been taken from the local citizenry via taxes.
Higher education realised they could only get away with so much in "Tuition" so they added "high cost fees
This. The state schools in my state raised tuition by a multiple of 15 in the last 20 years, but when you add in the fees 20 years ago and the fees now, the net effect is a 30 fold increase in 20 years. Yes, fully half of the cost of attending a class at this school is made up of fees.This is outside of the cost of residence, although a lot of the fees you would think would be tied to residence, like laundry fees, gym fees, etc. No, you pay those, too , even if you live off campus. Unfortunately, a lot of scholarships (for example, the GI dependents bill that my stepson is on) only cover actual tuition, so what was described as a "full ride" when we paid into it, turns out to pay only for tuition up to a certain amount per month, and it is definitely per month. Like when they say $900 a month, they don't mean $10,800 a year. They mean if school started on the 15th, you get $450, so in effect, the bill covers for us around $4,000 a year, which covers around 7.5 credit hours per semester. But, if you only take 7.5 credit hours, they don't pay you on a fulltime basis. Definitely not worth it. Don't pay into the GI Dependent College fund. Better to put the money in a savings account.
That's the biggest problems with shifts in power, especially if parties change every four years. One party spends four years getting something in place, or sets some long term goals, and then next election someone else comes in and changes it all. So they spend all the time and money getting one thing spun up and then it gets canned and they spend the next four years doing something else and it may be canned.
Gotta be a better way.
I like that way. If only we could get it to where we change parties before any money was spent. I feel that the best way for us to make progress is if the government doesn't get anything done, and also doesn't get any money spent.
The damages to a Local Contracting Company for one bad review on Yelp are apparently more money than the average contractor makes in a lifetime.
So, in an average 45 year career, a contractor will make on average less than $20,000 a year? Huh, then why are there so many contractors?
Actually, it is quite easy that this review could cost him $700,000 in a single year. He probably brings in a couple of million a year, and pays 95% of that to subcontractors/employees/materials. Thanks to this lady, he probably will have far less business, but still most of the same fixed costs. He could easily lose $700,000 a year for several years thanks to her.
The only thing that pisses me off about this is how much they are suing for. There is no way someone can pay that amount of money back in their lifetime, and they surely didn't do that much damage to you.
If one can't afford to pay that much, then one should not do that much damage to somebody else. Just because someone doesn't have any money doesn't mean that the person who's livelihood they damaged should get off cheap.
When you ask a court, i.e., the government, to require someone to pay you money for having said something, you are asking the government to punish someone for having spoken, based on the content of that speech -- in other words, PRECISELY the sort of thing that the First Amendment addresses
Not.
The First Amendment guarantees that the government will not limit your speech. It does not guarantee that you won't have to buy airtime or a printing press to make your speech. It does not guarantee that you won't have to pay damages to another entity if you make a fraudulent or damaging statement using your powers of free speech.
Thats barely more than 1 hour per day.... I think you are bad at conclusions.
That depends. Does the average Netflix user watch more than 1 hour of video per day? I suppose it is possible, but I sure don't.
They're not sitting there trying to log into your computer, they grabbed the hash via some existing method to do so and are cracking it offline at their leisure on their own machines.
How do they know they have cracked it without logging in? The program would also have to be sophisticated enough to check if the possible password was actually likely to be a password or otherwise just try it and see.
I'm pretty sure once you have the password hashes no amount of policy is going to slow down your cracking efforts.
I'm pretty sure once you have the hashes you don't have to brute force it, you just send the hash to the system and you're in.
Caterpillar sells equipment that helps Israel illegally build settlements in Palestinian territory.
So if they can blow up the Caterpillar plant, then the Israelis will not buy construction equipment from another company, they will simply realize the folly of their ways and give the land to the Palestinians? Somebody's spent too much time in the desert, methinks.
are people going to spend close to $1000 upgrading their computers just to be wowed by some extra graphical detail?
My two year old machine is still better than the higher recommended specs. I just bought a $600 system for my kids that has better specs than the recommended specs. If I can get a whole system for $600, than it shouldn't cost that much.
Let's check Newegg:
Intel Core i5-750 - apparently there is no such thing, but the most expensive I5 is $250.
or
AMD Phenom II X4 805 - apparently there is no such thing, but the most expensive AMD Phenom II X4 is $85.
NVIDIA GTX 560 - The most expensive of these is about $250, but they can be had for less than $200.
AMD Radeon HD5870 - No longer available, but faster cards are available for less than $100.
4GB Memory? $50, assuming your computer doesn't already have that much RAM. It is not easy to find a computer these days with less than 4 GB.
It is true for anything that can be insured. After all, the insurance company must pay the claims and the dividends from the premiums, thus the average person must pay more in premiums than he gets from claims.
It is true for anything in the U.S. except healthcare. Because in the U.S. not only does the insurance industry practice pooling, but they also practice payment contracts with the healthcare providers. Even if you pooled with 1,000 friends, you'd pay more than if you had healthcare insurance. On average, insurance companies probably charge you 100% more than they pay out in premiums, but on average if you paid full price for healthcare, it would be probably slightly more than you pay for insurance...
Or maybe not. Over the last 30 years, I have paid probably $200,000 in insurance premiums, and the insurance companies have probably paid out $5,000 or less in contract payments. But if I had had to pay full market price for my healthcare over the last 30 years, it probably would have been $50,000 or so (I'm including my whole family, since my medical costs in the last 30 years is probably less than $1,000 even at full market cost).
If you have the insurance that most cell phone carriers offer then you can get it replaced if stolen.
However, it would be cheaper for you to put the money you spend on insurance into a savings account and just buy a new phone if you lose or break it.
"The settlement resolves the online retailer's ongoing dispute with [Texas], which claimed that Amazon owed $269 million in back taxes. In addition to taking up collection, Amazon has agreed to create at least 2,500 jobs and invest a minimum of $200 million in capital investments, though it admits no fault,..."
Of course they admit no fault. They didn't do anything wrong. A state cannot force an outside entity to collect the state's taxes for them. They can only force businesses in their own state to do that, and they shouldn't even do that. If you want your money, go get it yourself. Amazon basically caved in to nothing and now has to invest money and jobs where they have no legal requirement to do so.
But that aside, special deals for businesses is nothing new. A Wal-Mart moved into my town instead of the town next door because my town offered them a better deal, plain and simple. And in a ceremony at City Hall, Wal-Mart gave the city a $5,000 check for some project that the city was wanting to do. It's definitely "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" in the world of big business. And the loser is the small business (which, by the way, employs 80% of America's workforce).
I've bult my own PCs for 20+ years, and I can't remeber ever really caring about moving the CPU from one motherboard to another.
I have never had a desire to move a CPU from one board to another either, but I DO have the desire to be able to mix and match CPUs to Motherboards. As long as I buy a motherboard with socket X, I can buy any CPU I want that fits that socket, and install it. If they are soldered in, then you have to hope that they offer the combo you want, or perhaps offer a service to solder it in for you, but it would probably be extra cost.
To their folly, hitherto many states have let Amazon and other online sites sell things tax free.
No they have not let Amazon do anything. They require the citizens of their state to pay Use tax. They just do a poor job of enforcement and collection. This has nothing to do with Amazon or any other online retailer, cataloger or telephone sales. It is not the responsibility of some out-of-state business to do a state's dirty work for them. perhaps those states got kick-backs from Amazon
Yeah, right.
BTW, if you ever need to determine if your electric fence is switched on or not, without putting your tongue across it, a portable AM radio tuned between stations and held close to the wires will enable the HV pulses to be heard.
Maybe they have improved in recent years, but I remember that they used to tick audibly.
When my mom's car was stolen, they found it in a carpark well know for being a staging area for a ring of car thieves that took the cars down to Mexico. They took fingerprints (yes, amazing in itself), and found that the fingerprints matched those of a known car thief. However, they did not pursue the car thief or issue a warrant for his arrest, and they also wouldn't give my mother the information on who the car thief was.
Not likely, but you keep hanging onto the everyone sues and wins myth.
Well, it is true that more and more the U.S. is turning into a country where we will do whatever we can to protect criminals from those pesky citizens. Prosecutors would rather prosecute someone who fought back against a criminal than prosecute the criminal him/herself. I mean criminals are dangerous. The worst an upstanding citizen will do to you is express outrage at the sheer absurdity of the situation.
Several years ago in my town, a man killed himself trying to steal copper from a live circuit box. He fell down dead right next to his toolbox full of stolen wire and wire stealing tools. His family successfully sued the apartment complex where the circuit box was installed, the city, and the local power company. The city's response to this was an oppressive and possibly illegal new rule requiring inspections of properties every time they change occupants. This rule has lowered property values as nobody wants to move into this oppressive city any more.
If the people are opposed to RFID tracking of their kids, the school has just lost their right to track them.
But the people were dead set against it according to the summary and they did it anyway.
Staff is probably more concerned because it IS a "security risk" to have people running around that don't belong. My local high school had an issue with a 20-something lurking around and ended up in the girls' locker room.
So we have a technological solution that identifies that people who are supposed to be there either are or aren't there, but it doesn't do anything about the problem you say is the bigger problem. Obviously, this solution doesn't help until we embed a chip in EVERYBODY, and then if people who aren't supposed to be there are found, they can be intercepted. In the long run, that is probably what they are looking to do.
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This will work great in New York City, unless the upstairs neighbor puts a rug over your solar panel.
How about "what makes you think that you would be better for this position?" or "Do you really want to work for a company that has no qualms about bringing somebody with no knowledge in to be a supervisor rather than promote someone from within?" After all, it may work out well this time for the interviewee, but the next outside placement they do may be HIS (or HER) boss.
In my area, Community College tuition is free to local residents. Books are extra and residency and a lot of other stuff, but the coursework itself is free. Or free after having been taken from the local citizenry via taxes.
Higher education realised they could only get away with so much in "Tuition" so they added "high cost fees
This. The state schools in my state raised tuition by a multiple of 15 in the last 20 years, but when you add in the fees 20 years ago and the fees now, the net effect is a 30 fold increase in 20 years. Yes, fully half of the cost of attending a class at this school is made up of fees.This is outside of the cost of residence, although a lot of the fees you would think would be tied to residence, like laundry fees, gym fees, etc. No, you pay those, too , even if you live off campus. Unfortunately, a lot of scholarships (for example, the GI dependents bill that my stepson is on) only cover actual tuition, so what was described as a "full ride" when we paid into it, turns out to pay only for tuition up to a certain amount per month, and it is definitely per month. Like when they say $900 a month, they don't mean $10,800 a year. They mean if school started on the 15th, you get $450, so in effect, the bill covers for us around $4,000 a year, which covers around 7.5 credit hours per semester. But, if you only take 7.5 credit hours, they don't pay you on a fulltime basis. Definitely not worth it. Don't pay into the GI Dependent College fund. Better to put the money in a savings account.
That's the biggest problems with shifts in power, especially if parties change every four years. One party spends four years getting something in place, or sets some long term goals, and then next election someone else comes in and changes it all. So they spend all the time and money getting one thing spun up and then it gets canned and they spend the next four years doing something else and it may be canned.
Gotta be a better way.
I like that way. If only we could get it to where we change parties before any money was spent. I feel that the best way for us to make progress is if the government doesn't get anything done, and also doesn't get any money spent.
The damages to a Local Contracting Company for one bad review on Yelp are apparently more money than the average contractor makes in a lifetime.
So, in an average 45 year career, a contractor will make on average less than $20,000 a year? Huh, then why are there so many contractors?
Actually, it is quite easy that this review could cost him $700,000 in a single year. He probably brings in a couple of million a year, and pays 95% of that to subcontractors/employees/materials. Thanks to this lady, he probably will have far less business, but still most of the same fixed costs. He could easily lose $700,000 a year for several years thanks to her.
The only thing that pisses me off about this is how much they are suing for. There is no way someone can pay that amount of money back in their lifetime, and they surely didn't do that much damage to you.
If one can't afford to pay that much, then one should not do that much damage to somebody else. Just because someone doesn't have any money doesn't mean that the person who's livelihood they damaged should get off cheap.
When you ask a court, i.e., the government, to require someone to pay you money for having said something, you are asking the government to punish someone for having spoken, based on the content of that speech -- in other words, PRECISELY the sort of thing that the First Amendment addresses
Not.
The First Amendment guarantees that the government will not limit your speech. It does not guarantee that you won't have to buy airtime or a printing press to make your speech. It does not guarantee that you won't have to pay damages to another entity if you make a fraudulent or damaging statement using your powers of free speech.
Thats barely more than 1 hour per day.... I think you are bad at conclusions.
That depends. Does the average Netflix user watch more than 1 hour of video per day? I suppose it is possible, but I sure don't.
They're not sitting there trying to log into your computer, they grabbed the hash via some existing method to do so and are cracking it offline at their leisure on their own machines.
How do they know they have cracked it without logging in? The program would also have to be sophisticated enough to check if the possible password was actually likely to be a password or otherwise just try it and see.
I'm pretty sure once you have the password hashes no amount of policy is going to slow down your cracking efforts.
I'm pretty sure once you have the hashes you don't have to brute force it, you just send the hash to the system and you're in.
Caterpillar sells equipment that helps Israel illegally build settlements in Palestinian territory.
So if they can blow up the Caterpillar plant, then the Israelis will not buy construction equipment from another company, they will simply realize the folly of their ways and give the land to the Palestinians? Somebody's spent too much time in the desert, methinks.
are people going to spend close to $1000 upgrading their computers just to be wowed by some extra graphical detail? My two year old machine is still better than the higher recommended specs. I just bought a $600 system for my kids that has better specs than the recommended specs. If I can get a whole system for $600, than it shouldn't cost that much.
Let's check Newegg:
Intel Core i5-750 - apparently there is no such thing, but the most expensive I5 is $250.
or
AMD Phenom II X4 805 - apparently there is no such thing, but the most expensive AMD Phenom II X4 is $85.
NVIDIA GTX 560 - The most expensive of these is about $250, but they can be had for less than $200.
AMD Radeon HD5870 - No longer available, but faster cards are available for less than $100.
4GB Memory? $50, assuming your computer doesn't already have that much RAM. It is not easy to find a computer these days with less than 4 GB.
Windows 8 is to Windows 7 as Windows Vista is to Windows XP.
It is true for anything that can be insured. After all, the insurance company must pay the claims and the dividends from the premiums, thus the average person must pay more in premiums than he gets from claims.
It is true for anything in the U.S. except healthcare. Because in the U.S. not only does the insurance industry practice pooling, but they also practice payment contracts with the healthcare providers. Even if you pooled with 1,000 friends, you'd pay more than if you had healthcare insurance. On average, insurance companies probably charge you 100% more than they pay out in premiums, but on average if you paid full price for healthcare, it would be probably slightly more than you pay for insurance...
Or maybe not. Over the last 30 years, I have paid probably $200,000 in insurance premiums, and the insurance companies have probably paid out $5,000 or less in contract payments. But if I had had to pay full market price for my healthcare over the last 30 years, it probably would have been $50,000 or so (I'm including my whole family, since my medical costs in the last 30 years is probably less than $1,000 even at full market cost).
If you have the insurance that most cell phone carriers offer then you can get it replaced if stolen.
However, it would be cheaper for you to put the money you spend on insurance into a savings account and just buy a new phone if you lose or break it.
"The settlement resolves the online retailer's ongoing dispute with [Texas], which claimed that Amazon owed $269 million in back taxes. In addition to taking up collection, Amazon has agreed to create at least 2,500 jobs and invest a minimum of $200 million in capital investments, though it admits no fault, ..."
Of course they admit no fault. They didn't do anything wrong. A state cannot force an outside entity to collect the state's taxes for them. They can only force businesses in their own state to do that, and they shouldn't even do that. If you want your money, go get it yourself. Amazon basically caved in to nothing and now has to invest money and jobs where they have no legal requirement to do so.
But that aside, special deals for businesses is nothing new. A Wal-Mart moved into my town instead of the town next door because my town offered them a better deal, plain and simple. And in a ceremony at City Hall, Wal-Mart gave the city a $5,000 check for some project that the city was wanting to do. It's definitely "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" in the world of big business. And the loser is the small business (which, by the way, employs 80% of America's workforce).
I've bult my own PCs for 20+ years, and I can't remeber ever really caring about moving the CPU from one motherboard to another.
I have never had a desire to move a CPU from one board to another either, but I DO have the desire to be able to mix and match CPUs to Motherboards. As long as I buy a motherboard with socket X, I can buy any CPU I want that fits that socket, and install it. If they are soldered in, then you have to hope that they offer the combo you want, or perhaps offer a service to solder it in for you, but it would probably be extra cost.
To their folly, hitherto many states have let Amazon and other online sites sell things tax free.
No they have not let Amazon do anything. They require the citizens of their state to pay Use tax. They just do a poor job of enforcement and collection. This has nothing to do with Amazon or any other online retailer, cataloger or telephone sales. It is not the responsibility of some out-of-state business to do a state's dirty work for them.
perhaps those states got kick-backs from Amazon
Yeah, right.
BTW, if you ever need to determine if your electric fence is switched on or not, without putting your tongue across it, a portable AM radio tuned between stations and held close to the wires will enable the HV pulses to be heard.
Maybe they have improved in recent years, but I remember that they used to tick audibly.
When my mom's car was stolen, they found it in a carpark well know for being a staging area for a ring of car thieves that took the cars down to Mexico. They took fingerprints (yes, amazing in itself), and found that the fingerprints matched those of a known car thief. However, they did not pursue the car thief or issue a warrant for his arrest, and they also wouldn't give my mother the information on who the car thief was.
Not likely, but you keep hanging onto the everyone sues and wins myth.
Well, it is true that more and more the U.S. is turning into a country where we will do whatever we can to protect criminals from those pesky citizens. Prosecutors would rather prosecute someone who fought back against a criminal than prosecute the criminal him/herself. I mean criminals are dangerous. The worst an upstanding citizen will do to you is express outrage at the sheer absurdity of the situation.
Several years ago in my town, a man killed himself trying to steal copper from a live circuit box. He fell down dead right next to his toolbox full of stolen wire and wire stealing tools. His family successfully sued the apartment complex where the circuit box was installed, the city, and the local power company. The city's response to this was an oppressive and possibly illegal new rule requiring inspections of properties every time they change occupants. This rule has lowered property values as nobody wants to move into this oppressive city any more.
If the people are opposed to RFID tracking of their kids, the school has just lost their right to track them.
But the people were dead set against it according to the summary and they did it anyway.
Staff is probably more concerned because it IS a "security risk" to have people running around that don't belong. My local high school had an issue with a 20-something lurking around and ended up in the girls' locker room.
So we have a technological solution that identifies that people who are supposed to be there either are or aren't there, but it doesn't do anything about the problem you say is the bigger problem. Obviously, this solution doesn't help until we embed a chip in EVERYBODY, and then if people who aren't supposed to be there are found, they can be intercepted. In the long run, that is probably what they are looking to do.