I think if you look at the whole situation, it is complete Darwinism. This is a toll road, no one is making you use it, and there are other ways (although perhaps not as desirable) to get from Austin to San Antonio. There are also well published statistics about how fatalities increase as a result of going at a higher speed (which should be pretty obvious if you give it more than a few minutes of thought). This all adds up to the drivers on that road (all of them) basically accepting the increased risk in exchange for going faster. If you want to preserve yourself (and the others in your car) you will take a different route. Natural selection, plain and simple.
Unfortunately, Darwinism only works if the person has not reproduced and was planning to reproduce in the future. For a very large percentage of drivers, the bad traits have already passed on.
"But officer he stole my virtual monopoly money! Do something!!!"
And what does the officer do when the fatcats invest your banking dollars in unsafe real estate investments and destroy your 401k? The answer is, borrow more money from you to bail out the people who mishandled your money so they won't go bankrupt.
For God's sake, the largest Bitcoin exchange is MTGox. That's the site formerly known as "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange".
And they aren't secure either. I had left 10 bitcoin in there that I had tried to sell a few months ago, and I was waiting for the price to go up (which it has now). But then I got a message saying that 10 bitcoin had been transferred out of my account and click here if you didn't order this. Well, clicking here starts a customer service ticket in which they say to contact the police and they will cooperate fully with the police. Well, that's all well and good, but the police aren't going to do anything about $70 worth of virtual currency disappearing. Heck, they don't do anything when several thousand dollars worth of automobile is stolen even if they have a match on fingerprints in the database.
The problem is running a gas powered motor for most of the day, every day, at ~4$/gallon.
That's not really as much of a problem as you might think. I did the math on my generator and it comes down to about 17 cents per kilowatt-hour. In my area, they have gone to peak pricing on electricity between 2 and 7 PM. The low rate is 11 cents per kilowatt hour. On some days, the peak rate is 21 cents. On the worst days, the peak rate is about 50 cents. So, on any day other than a low rate day, it would be cheaper to run my generator. Of course, I disregard maintenance and wear and tear in that assessment. But it seems very likely that I am able to provide myself cheaper electricity on high peak days than the electricity company can. So much for gaining efficiency through quantity.
What utter nonsensical racist trash you people spew within your white collar, white skin IT domes.
You are the one who brought up race, you racist. You are applying the label of poor socioeconomic background to equate to race. What a racist.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees. Ummm, yeah, what's the problem you fucking dick. I would gladly pay the dollar if I knew it was going to your employee's (and their families) health care.
Why should Papa John's have to pay for an employee's healthcare? Shouldn't the company just pay the employee an agreed upon wage and then the person can choose their own coverage from a list of competing companies? If employers are required to pay for healthcare, then only employed people will have healthcare. That is not a solution.
It has nothing to do with teacher's unions, and everything to do with our corporate-designed, bought, and paid for school system.
Hey, if it was corporate paid for, I could probably get behind that. Right now, it is corporate owned, but the taxpayers have to pay for it. If the corporations want to crank out worker monkeys, they can darn well pay for the privilege.
Where I live, they already pay the teachers for the full year anyway. But I am sure that they would begrudge actually having to work. Many of them take additional jobs in the summer to help make extra money.
That being said, one of the local school districts (the inner city) has started doing school all year. Undoubtedly, it reduces crime and keeps information fresh in the mind of the students. However, it basically means there is no opportunity for a summer vacation. Summer jobs are right out as well. Also, it is extremely inconvenient for parents, who now have to scramble for daycare for the one to two weeks off which occur every other month. Daycare facilities are, of course, not really geared for quick bursts like this for short periods of time.
Even worse is one school district locally that decided to start school an hour later on Wednesdays than on every other day of the week. They put it to a vote of the people and it was nearly unanimously voted down, but they did it anyway.
All of this stuff is done to reduce costs. It seems that educational facilities are stripped down to the skin to educate out children. They have to cut music and the arts, avoid buying new textbooks, have the parents buy all the supplies, and yet still seem to be strapped for cash. I'm not sure why this would be. Back in my day, the schools did okay, and the tax rate was half what it is now, and the salaries were half what they are now. Essentially they did OK on 1/4 of what they get now, but when they are given 4 times as much they can no longer survive. Maybe we should cut them back to what we used to give them.
Air conditioning is something to die for during the summer, and you wont have it if you are running a generator only.
Why not? My RV has two ACs and the generator pumps out enough juice to power them both.
In my city, the Chamber of Commerce happens to be located in a corner of the parking lot for the local Walmart, and the back of the building offers free electricity and water hookups.
So 7.5% of all households own RVs?
It doesn't surprise me. It's very regional as well. When I lived in the Chicago area, very few people had an RV or even went camping at all. However, in the south, just about every other house has an RV of some type. Note that not all RVs are highway behemoths. Some people have cheap popup trailers that sell brand new for sometimes under $6,000. There is also a large secondhand market.
Instead of Borax, you can use Diatomaceous earth (ground up old diatom creatures). The ant's cant stand the sharp edges and avoid it. Available at any pool supply store (used for filtering water).
Check online elsewhere for Diatomaceous Earth for other purposes. When you buy it from a pool supply store it is much more expensive than when you buy it for some other purpose. Little known fact: There exists "Food Grade" Diatomaceous Earth.
Isn't this question kind of moot? Real cloud computing is about distributed computing, to remove the central point of failure that "normal" server-client behavior has. I remember back when the idea was first introduced the tech document for an API I used to learn how to work with cloud based systems mentioned a specific scenario. The scenario was that your company has 100GB of data which must be processed. A data center goes down where 5GB of the data currently being processed is stored. But due to the distributed nature you don't have to halt your work and can instead reallocate that 5GB of data until a time when that data center comes back online, and instead work on some other part of the 100GB of data you have out in the cloud.
That's all well and good, but most implementations aren't that scenario. Basically, what they sell as the cloud is not distributed at all. It's just outsourcing your VM from your data center to some other data center server somewhere so that instead of crashing when your electricity goes out, you crash when their electricity goes out OR your electricity goes out (since the data is still no good to you when you can't access it).
I wouldn't call them idiots for investing, but they can't complain when they lose all of their unregulated currency to a Ponzi scheme.
Right. And I'm sure Madoff's victims got all of their money back, right?
and train to be a doctor yourself?
According to the insurance companies this is exactly what we need to do. If your doctor orders a test and the insurance company deems it medically unnecessary, then YOU have to pay for it. Well, unless you train to be a doctor, how are you supposed to know if you need it? Well, sure if it is a schedule procedure you could spend some time researching on the internet, but if it is an emergency and you may even be unconscious and they perform a procedure on you that turns out to have been unnecessary, why should YOU have to be left holding the bag?
In my case, the health plan offered by the company, and which the company touts as a "benefit" was costing me $900 a month. I'm not sure how this is a benefit if I am the one paying it. So I dropped the corporate insurance and got a major medical plan. Now, I understand that this plan is not a "conforming plan", as it meets the dictionary definition of insurance, not the current administrations. However, I will still gladly keep this plan and pay the $900 per year penalty for "Not having insurance", even though I do have insurance and what everybody else has is something else, because even if I pay $900 a year and have my Major Medical plan, it will still be thousands of dollars a year cheaper than having one of these Cadillac plans that Obama says I have to have.
Actually, expect LESS increases due to "Obama Care"
The reason is more people will be paying in to plans because they have to by law.
If you assume that the insurance companies will pass the savings on to the consumer , then that will be the case. However, I don't have as much faith in the for-profit insurance companies that you do. My theory is that when you are required by law to have something, then they can charge whatever they want, and you just have to pay it. I have learned from experience. When auto coverage was made mandatory, the rates went up, not down.When I was a dangerous 16 year old driver, I paid less per year than I pay per month now. That is more than a 15 fold increase since they made insurance mandatory, and yet still most people I know who are hit by somebody are hit by uninsured drivers.
You'll pay several times more out of pocket than an insurance.
I think it is pretty common for Major Medical (the only insurance plan that actually qualifies for the definition of insurance) to utilize the same contracts that the Hea;th Care plans for the same carriers use. For example, when I go to the doctor, they still submit a claim to my insurance company, the claim is adjudicated, and I pay out of pocket whatever the contracted rate is, up to $7500. Then the insurance company takes over, and Obamacare did make it where there is not allowed to be an upper limit on what the insurance company must pay. Good for me, bad for the long term viability of the economy probably.
If I were to hit my deductible consistently every single year, I would still be paying $2,000 a year less than I was paying for my employer's health plan, and that is not including all the deductibles, copays and coinsurances that I still had to pay under that plan. Since I don't ever hit the deductible, I am saving more like $7,000 to $8,000.
Wearing a t-shirt that says bite me to a dog convention, is pretty damned crazy.
Only if the dogs can read. Unfortunately for us, Delta personnel can apparently read, and not only read, but can read things which are irrelevant to the safety and operation of the airplane.
To back this up, at altitude, there is a differential pressure of at least 4 pounds per square inch. Do you know how many square inches there are on an airplane door? A lot. A 2 X 6 foot door is 1728 square inches, and would take 6912 pounds of force to open.
The product also works if there is a similar product that actually triggers an alarm but is indistinguishable from the fake security system.
I can vouch that my house is 99.9% as safe now with the ADT sign and all of the equipment installed and turned on, but without monitoring as it was when I was paying for monitoring. I might even have continued paying for monitoring if the Fire Department hadn't threatened to start charging me for the numerous false alarms caused by ADTs crappy and yet somehow expensive hardware.
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"We could possibly see drivers going 95 up to 100 miles per hour."
Hate to break it to Sandra, but that's the usual speed in many parts of Texas.
Yes, and if the speed limit is increased, they will no longer be able to fine you as much. Now the real issue is brought to light.
I think if you look at the whole situation, it is complete Darwinism. This is a toll road, no one is making you use it, and there are other ways (although perhaps not as desirable) to get from Austin to San Antonio. There are also well published statistics about how fatalities increase as a result of going at a higher speed (which should be pretty obvious if you give it more than a few minutes of thought). This all adds up to the drivers on that road (all of them) basically accepting the increased risk in exchange for going faster. If you want to preserve yourself (and the others in your car) you will take a different route. Natural selection, plain and simple.
Unfortunately, Darwinism only works if the person has not reproduced and was planning to reproduce in the future. For a very large percentage of drivers, the bad traits have already passed on.
"But officer he stole my virtual monopoly money! Do something!!!"
And what does the officer do when the fatcats invest your banking dollars in unsafe real estate investments and destroy your 401k? The answer is, borrow more money from you to bail out the people who mishandled your money so they won't go bankrupt.
For God's sake, the largest Bitcoin exchange is MTGox. That's the site formerly known as "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange".
And they aren't secure either. I had left 10 bitcoin in there that I had tried to sell a few months ago, and I was waiting for the price to go up (which it has now). But then I got a message saying that 10 bitcoin had been transferred out of my account and click here if you didn't order this. Well, clicking here starts a customer service ticket in which they say to contact the police and they will cooperate fully with the police. Well, that's all well and good, but the police aren't going to do anything about $70 worth of virtual currency disappearing. Heck, they don't do anything when several thousand dollars worth of automobile is stolen even if they have a match on fingerprints in the database.
The problem is running a gas powered motor for most of the day, every day, at ~4$/gallon.
That's not really as much of a problem as you might think. I did the math on my generator and it comes down to about 17 cents per kilowatt-hour. In my area, they have gone to peak pricing on electricity between 2 and 7 PM. The low rate is 11 cents per kilowatt hour. On some days, the peak rate is 21 cents. On the worst days, the peak rate is about 50 cents. So, on any day other than a low rate day, it would be cheaper to run my generator. Of course, I disregard maintenance and wear and tear in that assessment. But it seems very likely that I am able to provide myself cheaper electricity on high peak days than the electricity company can. So much for gaining efficiency through quantity.
What utter nonsensical racist trash you people spew within your white collar, white skin IT domes.
You are the one who brought up race, you racist. You are applying the label of poor socioeconomic background to equate to race. What a racist.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees. Ummm, yeah, what's the problem you fucking dick. I would gladly pay the dollar if I knew it was going to your employee's (and their families) health care.
Why should Papa John's have to pay for an employee's healthcare? Shouldn't the company just pay the employee an agreed upon wage and then the person can choose their own coverage from a list of competing companies? If employers are required to pay for healthcare, then only employed people will have healthcare. That is not a solution.
It has nothing to do with teacher's unions, and everything to do with our corporate-designed, bought, and paid for school system.
Hey, if it was corporate paid for, I could probably get behind that. Right now, it is corporate owned, but the taxpayers have to pay for it. If the corporations want to crank out worker monkeys, they can darn well pay for the privilege.
Where I live, they already pay the teachers for the full year anyway. But I am sure that they would begrudge actually having to work. Many of them take additional jobs in the summer to help make extra money.
That being said, one of the local school districts (the inner city) has started doing school all year. Undoubtedly, it reduces crime and keeps information fresh in the mind of the students. However, it basically means there is no opportunity for a summer vacation. Summer jobs are right out as well. Also, it is extremely inconvenient for parents, who now have to scramble for daycare for the one to two weeks off which occur every other month. Daycare facilities are, of course, not really geared for quick bursts like this for short periods of time.
Even worse is one school district locally that decided to start school an hour later on Wednesdays than on every other day of the week. They put it to a vote of the people and it was nearly unanimously voted down, but they did it anyway.
All of this stuff is done to reduce costs. It seems that educational facilities are stripped down to the skin to educate out children. They have to cut music and the arts, avoid buying new textbooks, have the parents buy all the supplies, and yet still seem to be strapped for cash. I'm not sure why this would be. Back in my day, the schools did okay, and the tax rate was half what it is now, and the salaries were half what they are now. Essentially they did OK on 1/4 of what they get now, but when they are given 4 times as much they can no longer survive. Maybe we should cut them back to what we used to give them.
Air conditioning is something to die for during the summer, and you wont have it if you are running a generator only.
Why not? My RV has two ACs and the generator pumps out enough juice to power them both.
The interest on the mortgage is tax deductible as a second (or in this case primary) home. But only if it has cooking and showering facilities.
In my city, the Chamber of Commerce happens to be located in a corner of the parking lot for the local Walmart, and the back of the building offers free electricity and water hookups.
So 7.5% of all households own RVs?
It doesn't surprise me. It's very regional as well. When I lived in the Chicago area, very few people had an RV or even went camping at all. However, in the south, just about every other house has an RV of some type. Note that not all RVs are highway behemoths. Some people have cheap popup trailers that sell brand new for sometimes under $6,000. There is also a large secondhand market.
Instead of Borax, you can use Diatomaceous earth (ground up old diatom creatures). The ant's cant stand the sharp edges and avoid it. Available at any pool supply store (used for filtering water).
Check online elsewhere for Diatomaceous Earth for other purposes. When you buy it from a pool supply store it is much more expensive than when you buy it for some other purpose. Little known fact: There exists "Food Grade" Diatomaceous Earth.
Isn't this question kind of moot? Real cloud computing is about distributed computing, to remove the central point of failure that "normal" server-client behavior has. I remember back when the idea was first introduced the tech document for an API I used to learn how to work with cloud based systems mentioned a specific scenario. The scenario was that your company has 100GB of data which must be processed. A data center goes down where 5GB of the data currently being processed is stored. But due to the distributed nature you don't have to halt your work and can instead reallocate that 5GB of data until a time when that data center comes back online, and instead work on some other part of the 100GB of data you have out in the cloud.
That's all well and good, but most implementations aren't that scenario. Basically, what they sell as the cloud is not distributed at all. It's just outsourcing your VM from your data center to some other data center server somewhere so that instead of crashing when your electricity goes out, you crash when their electricity goes out OR your electricity goes out (since the data is still no good to you when you can't access it).
I wouldn't call them idiots for investing, but they can't complain when they lose all of their unregulated currency to a Ponzi scheme.
Right. And I'm sure Madoff's victims got all of their money back, right?
and train to be a doctor yourself?
According to the insurance companies this is exactly what we need to do. If your doctor orders a test and the insurance company deems it medically unnecessary, then YOU have to pay for it. Well, unless you train to be a doctor, how are you supposed to know if you need it? Well, sure if it is a schedule procedure you could spend some time researching on the internet, but if it is an emergency and you may even be unconscious and they perform a procedure on you that turns out to have been unnecessary, why should YOU have to be left holding the bag?
In my case, the health plan offered by the company, and which the company touts as a "benefit" was costing me $900 a month. I'm not sure how this is a benefit if I am the one paying it. So I dropped the corporate insurance and got a major medical plan. Now, I understand that this plan is not a "conforming plan", as it meets the dictionary definition of insurance, not the current administrations. However, I will still gladly keep this plan and pay the $900 per year penalty for "Not having insurance", even though I do have insurance and what everybody else has is something else, because even if I pay $900 a year and have my Major Medical plan, it will still be thousands of dollars a year cheaper than having one of these Cadillac plans that Obama says I have to have.
I am 42 and my wife is 47. We have 4 kids on our major medical plan. We pay $278 a month. Assurant Health is the carrier.
Actually, expect LESS increases due to "Obama Care"
The reason is more people will be paying in to plans because they have to by law.
If you assume that the insurance companies will pass the savings on to the consumer , then that will be the case. However, I don't have as much faith in the for-profit insurance companies that you do. My theory is that when you are required by law to have something, then they can charge whatever they want, and you just have to pay it. I have learned from experience. When auto coverage was made mandatory, the rates went up, not down.When I was a dangerous 16 year old driver, I paid less per year than I pay per month now. That is more than a 15 fold increase since they made insurance mandatory, and yet still most people I know who are hit by somebody are hit by uninsured drivers.
You'll pay several times more out of pocket than an insurance.
I think it is pretty common for Major Medical (the only insurance plan that actually qualifies for the definition of insurance) to utilize the same contracts that the Hea;th Care plans for the same carriers use. For example, when I go to the doctor, they still submit a claim to my insurance company, the claim is adjudicated, and I pay out of pocket whatever the contracted rate is, up to $7500. Then the insurance company takes over, and Obamacare did make it where there is not allowed to be an upper limit on what the insurance company must pay. Good for me, bad for the long term viability of the economy probably.
If I were to hit my deductible consistently every single year, I would still be paying $2,000 a year less than I was paying for my employer's health plan, and that is not including all the deductibles, copays and coinsurances that I still had to pay under that plan. Since I don't ever hit the deductible, I am saving more like $7,000 to $8,000.
Wearing a t-shirt that says bite me to a dog convention, is pretty damned crazy.
Only if the dogs can read. Unfortunately for us, Delta personnel can apparently read, and not only read, but can read things which are irrelevant to the safety and operation of the airplane.
To back this up, at altitude, there is a differential pressure of at least 4 pounds per square inch. Do you know how many square inches there are on an airplane door? A lot. A 2 X 6 foot door is 1728 square inches, and would take 6912 pounds of force to open.
The product also works if there is a similar product that actually triggers an alarm but is indistinguishable from the fake security system.
I can vouch that my house is 99.9% as safe now with the ADT sign and all of the equipment installed and turned on, but without monitoring as it was when I was paying for monitoring. I might even have continued paying for monitoring if the Fire Department hadn't threatened to start charging me for the numerous false alarms caused by ADTs crappy and yet somehow expensive hardware.
People have always made sacrifices now, for a potential payoff, later.
You misspelled "layoff".