Having recently moved to the Chicago area from California, I find myself having to learn to live with the vague feeling of unease that's caused by the fact that the most popular building style here seems to be "big pile of bricks".
And may I add to that "built on top of a swamp".
Ironical. You're actually not supposed to run out of a building during an earthquake. So by not knowing what to do, they did the right thing.
Well, that is probably because you are more likely to hurt yourself running. Of course, that is unlikely in a 5.6. I could see an upside to being outside, at least here in Oklahoma. In LA, you've got tall buildings and structures that could fall on top of you. Here in Oklahoma, most people have plenty of open space to go sit down and wait for the shaking to stop.
Honestly, earthquakes are beginning to be old hat for us here in Oklahoma. This 5.6 was the biggest ever, but there was a 4.7 just 20 hours earlier. According to USGS, we have had 26 earthquakes 2.7 on up in the last 48 hours. All within the same 20 mile radius.
I grew up here in Oklahoma, and we never had an earthquake. The first earthquake I ever knew about in Oklahoma was in 2007. I barely recognized it for what it was. It seemed like there was a loud buzz and then the house just kind of went "whump" like a car had hit it. There was a lot of talk about that one, but then we started having them about 3 a year, and then lately it has been a couple a month, but this last couple of days has been just lousy with them.
Still and all I prefer the ground shifting fairly regularly in small increments, then saving it up for a big move.
I agree. I have always felt that the ROI for marketing and advertising is somewhere under $1 per $1 spent. The only reason that you have to have marketing is because your competitor has marketing, and even though the competition loses money on every dollar spent, you also lose some amount of money for every dollar they spend because their marketing has SOME effect on your business.
In other words, marketing is necessary because marketing exists. In the same manner, we all hate lying salesmen, but for the same reason, salesman HAVE to lie because other salesmen lie.
The question to be answered in both cases is, if the stack has n pancakes, what is the maximum number of flips needed as a function of n, i.e. f(n)?
Well, if you have a stack of pancakes than you need to do zero flips. If you HAD a stack of pancakes and you now have half a stack of pancakes and pancakes all over the floor, then you had to do more than zero flips, although being pancakes, it is likely that the ordering of the pancakes is only very loosely related to whether they need to be sorted.
Next in line: Oracle sues Mother Nature for making a star named Sun.
It's name is Sol. People just call it the sun. This would probably play out just like the whole "Band-aid" brand bandage thing.
Bakery towards the back, since it needs to go in the trolley/basket last, or it will get squashed.
No, staple items in back, that way you have to walk past all the stuff that you normally wouldn't think of buying.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this incident was the way that so many people automatically jumped to a wrong conclusion,
This is Slashdot. Jumping to conclusions is the closest thing to physical exercise that happens around here. Oh, wait, I forgot about running our mouths.
If they allow you to take more than 6 oz through security, then the vendors post security will not have the ability to fleece you for water and toiletries.
The scanners possibly have the benefit of making people confident enough to fly, and so are not totally make-work...
I don't know about everybody else, but the inconvenience of succumbing to the security and the increased costs of flying due to the security has made it almost a surety that I will never fly again unless my company makes me.
Well, I as a Christian would have no problem with spitting on a Bible or an image of Jesus or whatever, as those are just symbols. Putting some special significance on treating those objects as sacred would be worshiping false idols as I see it. I mean, I wouldn't go out of my way to step on a picture of Jesus, but if somebody said to do it or I can't get on a plane, I would just think "whatever, idiot" , and do it. Or refuse to do it, but not on religious grounds , but on the grounds that that is stupid and unbiblical.
Where I live (Oklahoma), the DMV has been outsourced to private enterprise, who have to compete with one another, so the lines are relatively short. However, the paperwork challenges are still in full force. They will not issue you a tag if you do not show up in the states database of insured motorists, but yet you still have to bring an extra paper copy of your insurance card and surrender it to them.
Also, they charge extra if you use a credit card which is not allowed by any vendor that I know of other than state agencies.
You must be in perfect health, aged 25-35, with no wife or kids then.
Nope, I am 41, my wife is 46 and I have 4 kids aged 9-19. But we are generally pretty healthy. We compared rates at ehealthinsurance.com and did everything electronically. I recommend high deductible insurance where you pay everything out of pocket up to $10,000 per year. Insurance companies will be more lax on the pre-existing conditions if you are basically covering everything except a worst case scenario yourself. But then, if you see my history, I ALWAYS recommend high deductible insurance, as that is what insurance actually is.
When Obamacare ends the whole concept of preexisting conditions, health insurance is doomed. Anyone with any math skills will dump their insurance immediately, pay out of pocket for general care, and then knock on Aetna's door when something serious happens
That's funny, that is what I thought insurance was? You pay for the general day to day stuff, and insurance steps in when you get a huge thing that you can't pay for. This is why the only valid form of insurance ought to be catastrophic care, aka "high deductible". I have a $10,000 deductible. I pay everything out of pocket up to that, and there is no upper limit or lifetime cap after the $10,000 deductible is met. I pay out of pocket, but I get the insurance negotiated rates. My insurance costs less than 1/4 of what the "Full coverage" I used to have. Even when I had full coverage, I still had copays and deductibles. Now that I am paying 100% out of pocket, i would estimate I am saving about $7,500 a year on my medical/insurance budget.
Besides, in a couple years any monitor you buy will be touch screen enabled, so alternative input methods will be a moot point.
Touch screen monitors are horribly inefficient for a workstation. They work pretty good in an environment where the computer is a secondary device to doing the job, like on a production line, or a GPS in a car, but a keyboard and mouse are an order of magnitude quicker.
That said, the tech inside the kinect is amazing and the ability to get it all in to a sub100 dollar mass market device is impressive.
Sub 100$? From what I hear, "you are the controller." I would assume that means THEY pay YOU.
That's right. And whenever you have to listen to companies whine about how much employees cost, they tell you that an employee costs twice what their salary is. so if they are paying a contractor double that, then they are paying exactly what an employee would have cost them.
Tax evasion is not paying taxes that you owe. What you have described is avoiding paying taxes by not generating a tax liability. This is not illegal and is fully supported by the tax code and is meant as an encouragement to start and run businesses which in the long run leads to greater tax revenue.
Individual insurance is a BITCH to get.
Really? Because I have had two different individual insurance policies, and neither of them even required a medical checkup or anything. I dropped my companies health care coverage because it was too expensive compared to what I could get as an individual. i was with HumanaOne, but they got kind of pricey so I went to Assurant. Both are about 1/4 what i was paying for coverage at work.
In the 1950's money was borrowed to fund research and development. This resulted in putting men on the moon and spurred the computer age and caused 20 years of growth. That is called an investment. Investment debt is a good thing. Consumer debt is a bad thing. Buying TVs on credit cards is a bad thing. That is the equivalent of what they politicians are doing with our money right now. They are wasting over $2 trillion dollars on the equivalent of paying people to stay home and watch TV and have kids that will grow up to stay home and watch TV and have kids. As much as people complain about the military budget it pales in comparison to the amount that is spent on social programs. What the politicians are doing now is the equivalent of borrowing money from one credit card to pay off another.
However, you will find more conservatives that support it than progressives.
Okay, but I'd like to see a poll or something. Zero of the conservatives that I know, and in fact zero of the people that I have ever questioned about it are in support of the TSAs actions.
Blockbusters new releases were originally about $3 for a VHS tape. That is about $6 in today's money for a VHS and not a DVD. And they made you pay a fee if you didn't rewind it. Sure they got more expensive over time, but they were never a cheap option. They had decent prices on stuff that was not new release, but their categorization of new releases meant that basically anything filmed in color was considered a new release.
I don't know why businesses feel they need to lie to people. I guess it is because they imagine that most people are too dumb to know better and assume that the smart ones won't tell the dumb ones what is really going on. It's like the sign in the bathroom at the hotel that says "Out of concern for the environment, we will only launder your towels every other day unless you specifically ask us for new towels every day." In fact, they don't care about the environment at all. They are saving money by not laundering your towels, but they lie and tell you that their motivation was the environment.
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Having recently moved to the Chicago area from California, I find myself having to learn to live with the vague feeling of unease that's caused by the fact that the most popular building style here seems to be "big pile of bricks".
And may I add to that "built on top of a swamp".
You forgot Norman,they are so left leaning there, I'm surprised they don't fall over.
Ironical. You're actually not supposed to run out of a building during an earthquake. So by not knowing what to do, they did the right thing.
Well, that is probably because you are more likely to hurt yourself running. Of course, that is unlikely in a 5.6. I could see an upside to being outside, at least here in Oklahoma. In LA, you've got tall buildings and structures that could fall on top of you. Here in Oklahoma, most people have plenty of open space to go sit down and wait for the shaking to stop.
Honestly, earthquakes are beginning to be old hat for us here in Oklahoma. This 5.6 was the biggest ever, but there was a 4.7 just 20 hours earlier. According to USGS, we have had 26 earthquakes 2.7 on up in the last 48 hours. All within the same 20 mile radius.
I grew up here in Oklahoma, and we never had an earthquake. The first earthquake I ever knew about in Oklahoma was in 2007. I barely recognized it for what it was. It seemed like there was a loud buzz and then the house just kind of went "whump" like a car had hit it. There was a lot of talk about that one, but then we started having them about 3 a year, and then lately it has been a couple a month, but this last couple of days has been just lousy with them.
Still and all I prefer the ground shifting fairly regularly in small increments, then saving it up for a big move.
I agree. I have always felt that the ROI for marketing and advertising is somewhere under $1 per $1 spent. The only reason that you have to have marketing is because your competitor has marketing, and even though the competition loses money on every dollar spent, you also lose some amount of money for every dollar they spend because their marketing has SOME effect on your business.
In other words, marketing is necessary because marketing exists. In the same manner, we all hate lying salesmen, but for the same reason, salesman HAVE to lie because other salesmen lie.
The question to be answered in both cases is, if the stack has n pancakes, what is the maximum number of flips needed as a function of n, i.e. f(n)?
Well, if you have a stack of pancakes than you need to do zero flips. If you HAD a stack of pancakes and you now have half a stack of pancakes and pancakes all over the floor, then you had to do more than zero flips, although being pancakes, it is likely that the ordering of the pancakes is only very loosely related to whether they need to be sorted.
Next in line: Oracle sues Mother Nature for making a star named Sun.
It's name is Sol. People just call it the sun. This would probably play out just like the whole "Band-aid" brand bandage thing.
Bakery towards the back, since it needs to go in the trolley/basket last, or it will get squashed.
No, staple items in back, that way you have to walk past all the stuff that you normally wouldn't think of buying.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this incident was the way that so many people automatically jumped to a wrong conclusion,
This is Slashdot. Jumping to conclusions is the closest thing to physical exercise that happens around here. Oh, wait, I forgot about running our mouths.
If they allow you to take more than 6 oz through security, then the vendors post security will not have the ability to fleece you for water and toiletries.
The scanners possibly have the benefit of making people confident enough to fly, and so are not totally make-work ...
I don't know about everybody else, but the inconvenience of succumbing to the security and the increased costs of flying due to the security has made it almost a surety that I will never fly again unless my company makes me.
Well, I as a Christian would have no problem with spitting on a Bible or an image of Jesus or whatever, as those are just symbols. Putting some special significance on treating those objects as sacred would be worshiping false idols as I see it. I mean, I wouldn't go out of my way to step on a picture of Jesus, but if somebody said to do it or I can't get on a plane, I would just think "whatever, idiot" , and do it. Or refuse to do it, but not on religious grounds , but on the grounds that that is stupid and unbiblical.
Nobody told Newegg either. The same 2TB Western Digital Caviar black that I bought 6 months ago is $149.99, $20 cheaper than when I bought it.
Where I live (Oklahoma), the DMV has been outsourced to private enterprise, who have to compete with one another, so the lines are relatively short. However, the paperwork challenges are still in full force. They will not issue you a tag if you do not show up in the states database of insured motorists, but yet you still have to bring an extra paper copy of your insurance card and surrender it to them.
Also, they charge extra if you use a credit card which is not allowed by any vendor that I know of other than state agencies.
You must be in perfect health, aged 25-35, with no wife or kids then.
Nope, I am 41, my wife is 46 and I have 4 kids aged 9-19. But we are generally pretty healthy. We compared rates at ehealthinsurance.com and did everything electronically. I recommend high deductible insurance where you pay everything out of pocket up to $10,000 per year. Insurance companies will be more lax on the pre-existing conditions if you are basically covering everything except a worst case scenario yourself. But then, if you see my history, I ALWAYS recommend high deductible insurance, as that is what insurance actually is.
When Obamacare ends the whole concept of preexisting conditions, health insurance is doomed. Anyone with any math skills will dump their insurance immediately, pay out of pocket for general care, and then knock on Aetna's door when something serious happens
That's funny, that is what I thought insurance was? You pay for the general day to day stuff, and insurance steps in when you get a huge thing that you can't pay for. This is why the only valid form of insurance ought to be catastrophic care, aka "high deductible". I have a $10,000 deductible. I pay everything out of pocket up to that, and there is no upper limit or lifetime cap after the $10,000 deductible is met. I pay out of pocket, but I get the insurance negotiated rates. My insurance costs less than 1/4 of what the "Full coverage" I used to have. Even when I had full coverage, I still had copays and deductibles. Now that I am paying 100% out of pocket, i would estimate I am saving about $7,500 a year on my medical/insurance budget.
Besides, in a couple years any monitor you buy will be touch screen enabled, so alternative input methods will be a moot point.
Touch screen monitors are horribly inefficient for a workstation. They work pretty good in an environment where the computer is a secondary device to doing the job, like on a production line, or a GPS in a car, but a keyboard and mouse are an order of magnitude quicker.
That said, the tech inside the kinect is amazing and the ability to get it all in to a sub100 dollar mass market device is impressive.
Sub 100$? From what I hear, "you are the controller." I would assume that means THEY pay YOU.
That's right. And whenever you have to listen to companies whine about how much employees cost, they tell you that an employee costs twice what their salary is. so if they are paying a contractor double that, then they are paying exactly what an employee would have cost them.
Tax evasion is not paying taxes that you owe. What you have described is avoiding paying taxes by not generating a tax liability. This is not illegal and is fully supported by the tax code and is meant as an encouragement to start and run businesses which in the long run leads to greater tax revenue.
Individual insurance is a BITCH to get.
Really? Because I have had two different individual insurance policies, and neither of them even required a medical checkup or anything. I dropped my companies health care coverage because it was too expensive compared to what I could get as an individual. i was with HumanaOne, but they got kind of pricey so I went to Assurant. Both are about 1/4 what i was paying for coverage at work.
In the 1950's money was borrowed to fund research and development. This resulted in putting men on the moon and spurred the computer age and caused 20 years of growth. That is called an investment. Investment debt is a good thing. Consumer debt is a bad thing. Buying TVs on credit cards is a bad thing. That is the equivalent of what they politicians are doing with our money right now. They are wasting over $2 trillion dollars on the equivalent of paying people to stay home and watch TV and have kids that will grow up to stay home and watch TV and have kids. As much as people complain about the military budget it pales in comparison to the amount that is spent on social programs. What the politicians are doing now is the equivalent of borrowing money from one credit card to pay off another.
However, you will find more conservatives that support it than progressives.
Okay, but I'd like to see a poll or something. Zero of the conservatives that I know, and in fact zero of the people that I have ever questioned about it are in support of the TSAs actions.
Blockbusters new releases were originally about $3 for a VHS tape. That is about $6 in today's money for a VHS and not a DVD. And they made you pay a fee if you didn't rewind it. Sure they got more expensive over time, but they were never a cheap option. They had decent prices on stuff that was not new release, but their categorization of new releases meant that basically anything filmed in color was considered a new release.
I don't know why businesses feel they need to lie to people. I guess it is because they imagine that most people are too dumb to know better and assume that the smart ones won't tell the dumb ones what is really going on. It's like the sign in the bathroom at the hotel that says "Out of concern for the environment, we will only launder your towels every other day unless you specifically ask us for new towels every day." In fact, they don't care about the environment at all. They are saving money by not laundering your towels, but they lie and tell you that their motivation was the environment.