Me neither. Every time a new big plane comes out, the main thing I hear about it, is how much better the new engines are than the old ones.
Of course, engines are not designed along with the airplane. You can find the same airplane model running GE, Pratt and Witney or Rolls Royce engines, according to what the airline who purchased the plane wanted. What this means is that it should be technically possible for old airplanes like the 747 to get brand spanking new efficient engines. However, the red tape stops this from happening. When you are building a new airplane you KNOW you are going to have to go through the process of certification, but going back through that whole process just for some new engines is just not worth the expense. Well, it would be worth the expense in fuel savings to the airlines, but it is the engine and airframe manufacturers that have to foot the bill while the airlines would reap the rewards.
2 out of 4 people you meet on the street are likely to have below average intelligence.
Actually, 1.5 out of 4 because there is a 50/50 chance that you are one of those people with below average intelligence.
they know that this would be their top #1 seller, and most of their other cars would become a lot less popular.
Most of their other small sedans are a lot cheaper, larger, faster, more comfortable and carry more cargo. Sure they use more gas, but $10,000 will buy a lot of gas even at $4 a gallon.
With the exams, they have resources available to give them the answers (i.e. textbooks, MCSE Cram's etc), but with a test within the interview, they won't necessarily know the answer until they see the test.
What if they are not wasting their brain remembering all of the exact parameters for every obscure function, but instead know just which function to use and know where to immediately go to find out the information they need?
Taking a test during a job interview means that they are serious about the situation.
Well, if they are serious, they should be required to hire you if you pass. I don't know how many hours I have wasted taking and passing tests from brainbench, Oracle, Sybase, Cheetah, etc. and they still didn't hire me. They should at least be required to compensate me for my time. Some of the larger companies now have their own application process where you have to spend about an hour building a profile and putting in your resume. If you were out of work and desperately looking for a job, you could spend 30-50 hours a week just filling in these ridiculously lengthy profiles, just to hope for maybe one or two calls back.
Then you have companies that aren't really looking to hire anyone, but just want to find out how to do something, so they ask the interviewees how to solve their real world problem. If you get it wrong, they don't hire you. If you get it right, then they don't need you, so they don't hire you.
Then you have the ones where they just figured out some complex problem after spending hundreds of hours on it and now that they have the solution, they ask you to solve it during your half hour interview and look down their nose at you if you can't.
Two properties of a theory are: must be possible to disprove; and must be able to predict results of a test.
So we should refuse to believe in a thing unless it can be proven wrong?
Is it legal to commit crimes against the wealthy now?
Lots of people without money tend to despise those with money. I was one of those when I was growing up as poor white trash, then with some luck, some smarts and some hard work, I got fairly well off, then with a lot of luck of the wrong kind, I am now back down to middle class. But now that I have walked a mile in a rich man's shoes I no longer despise those with wealth. Instead, I despise those who took my wealth away from me. Namely Osama Bin Ladin and Dennis Kozlowski.
I've never understood these claims about Narnia being religious. I guess the last book in the series is a bit, but most of it is just a story.
When I first read the series, I was very young and not aware of C.S. Lewis' religion. I noticed the similarity to the Christ story in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I was shocked that he could get away with something like that. Later, when I found out that he was a Christian, it all made sense. Sort of like how black people can call each other the name that white people can't, Christians can write parallels to Christ into their stories that atheists would never get away with. And I say this as a Christian myself.
Uhhh... one problem - they're not actually doing any collisions yet - so plenty of time for a blackhole to form and swallow us all (or for the blackhole to consume more funding;) )
How exactly do they think that high speed collisions are going to cause black holes? Do they think that slamming two particles together fast enough will cause them to be close enough together to have a near infinite density required for light to not be able to escape? I would think you would need a lot more speed and a lot more mass, but then I am just a layman. I don't have access to the technical resources that crackpots do.
You should have your email client check for new email every 5 minutes.
My Outlook only pulls new e-mails every 5 minutes, but that tends to lead to the situation where someone will call me or IM me and ask if I have had a chance to respond to their e-mail yet, even thought I haven't received it yet.
Of course you have to understand that i work at a company where I have 10 standing meetings on my calendar, and if I show up, I find out that they moved it to another day or time, and I also regularly get asked if I can be in an 8:00 A.M. meeting at 8:10 A.M. (at which time I am usually on my way to work because unless I was specifically notified that I need to be at work earlier, I usually show up between 8:30 and 9).
Don't get me started on the number of meetings scheduled at lunch time that are not lunch meetings, or the fact that we have two deadlines daily, one at noon and one at 1:00 P.M.
If Humans can manipulate matter to such a degree as to create life from non-life, it proves that God was not nessisary to create life.
No, in order to prove THAT you would have to create the VERY FIRST life from non-life, which is impossible to prove both because of the logistics and the paradox.
Also, what they created does not meet the scientific criteria for life.
How do you propose a non-tasty egg reproduce to pass on its non-tasty genes, given its tastiness is unknown until reproduction is impossible ?
Evolution is a numbers game. If a particular chicken (in the wild, not farm raised) had the bad tasting egg gene and survived to maturity and laid a clutch of eggs that tasted bad, a predator would be more likely to eat a few but not all, whereas it would probably eat all of another chickens eggs. Eventually, the surviving chickens could conceivably weed out all the chickens with good tasting eggs.
However, on an equal footing here is the possibility that predators could develop a taste for bad tasting eggs and the ones that liked the bad tasting eggs would be more likely to survive to maturity.
Then again, there is the likelihood that egg defense is only one small step in the reaching of maturity for a chicken, and probably not even the hardest step. There was more pressure to develop a way to fly short distances than to make bad tasting eggs.
By the way, my belief and defense of this particular possible avenue of evolutionary pressure does not dissuade me in the slightest from my belief in God.
It is a national plan, but I can use it internationally, they just don't tell me the rates until I get the bill. Of course, I would assume they would rip me off if I used the phone internationally, and so I don't. However, I would not expect them to rip me off $20,000 for a couple of photos. I would expect them to rip me off by perhaps $20 or $30, which is still too much for a couple of photos.
So now we need to tell people what they can charge for their service?
Absolutely. The nature of a free market economy is that the buyers have a price that they are willing to buy at and the sellers have a price that they are willing to sell at. When those prices coincide, transactions take place. However, in this case, both sides have agreed on a price, but under certain terms and conditions, which are probably spelled out in the fine print, the seller's price is hundreds of times higher than normal, and the exact amount of this charge I am willing to bet is not covered in the agreed upon contract, and is probably somewhat difficult to ascertain with any accuracy prior to the charges taking place.
The idiots that signed the contract in this case, ARE, responsible.
That's funny, I have my cell phone contract right here in my office and it doesn't mention how much cell phone service, or sending pictures would cost in Canada.
You're perfectly free not to enter into a contract with any cell provider.
Well, many people may be, but my last three jobs have REQUIRED me to have a cell phone.
what they shouldn't have done is offer the 80/20 loans with no PMI.
PMI is a big scam. It is insurance for the banks, but YOU have to pay it. Heck, I could be paying my mortgage down another couple of hundred per month if it wasn't for the insurance I have to pay to cover the banks butt. And I've never missed a payment, yet my premium stays the same. PMI is a scam that was lobbied for by the lenders and made law by the government as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since you have to pay more money than you should have to for the loan, you are more likely to need the PMI. My PMI payment is about 15% of my P&I amount. Incredible!
I know, you are saying "why not put 20% down"? Well, this was right after Osama destroyed the economy, and I was out of work, sold my cars, sold my house, lived off of credit cars, and was just getting back into a house. I put down 10% and the bank qualified me for a 80/10 loan with my 10% to make the PMI unnecessary. But two days before the closing, they converted it to an 85% loan and I had to come up with 15% down, which meant dipping into friends and relatives money (which you technically can't do, but what can you do in such a situation). Of course, they made it an 85% loan and not 80% because at 80% I wouldn't have had to pay PMI and they wouldn't get their kickback or whatever from the PMI company.
I should have told them to go spit and found another mortgage company, but by that point my Mom had sold her house that we were living in (she was going to move in with us) so we had nowhere to go and the mortgage company knew they could screw us.
I will complain about any company's advertising if they are a company whose products or services I use. Instead of spending the money on advertising, they could be spending the money on making the product or service better or cheaper. Spending money on advertising only make sense if the profit from the increase in sales overcomes the cost of the ad, which despite what marketers tell you, I am not convinced that this is ever the case.
The most obvious case is when my neighborhood utility or phone monopoly advertises when they could be lowering my rates instead.
I must really be dense, because even after the commercial was over, I STILL thought it was for a shoe store. I thought it was for Payless as a matter of fact. I thought it was pretty clever how they showed that even a rich guy like Bill Gates is still thrifty about buying shoes. Even so much as to get a frequent shopper discount card. Now that is a rich guy who wants to STAY rich.
But I guess that is not what the commercial is about.
We have to show everyone that global warming is caused by a lack of sunspots...
But, that is not true. It is the other way around. The lack of sunspots is caused by global warming.
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"There's a sucker born every minute -- and two to take him." -- P.T. Barnum.
According to P.T. Barnum, P.T. Barnum never said that.
Me neither. Every time a new big plane comes out, the main thing I hear about it, is how much better the new engines are than the old ones.
Of course, engines are not designed along with the airplane. You can find the same airplane model running GE, Pratt and Witney or Rolls Royce engines, according to what the airline who purchased the plane wanted. What this means is that it should be technically possible for old airplanes like the 747 to get brand spanking new efficient engines. However, the red tape stops this from happening. When you are building a new airplane you KNOW you are going to have to go through the process of certification, but going back through that whole process just for some new engines is just not worth the expense. Well, it would be worth the expense in fuel savings to the airlines, but it is the engine and airframe manufacturers that have to foot the bill while the airlines would reap the rewards.
2 out of 4 people you meet on the street are likely to have below average intelligence.
Actually, 1.5 out of 4 because there is a 50/50 chance that you are one of those people with below average intelligence.
Precisely, no Trilogy should contain more than, say, 5 books.
they know that this would be their top #1 seller, and most of their other cars would become a lot less popular.
Most of their other small sedans are a lot cheaper, larger, faster, more comfortable and carry more cargo. Sure they use more gas, but $10,000 will buy a lot of gas even at $4 a gallon.
With the exams, they have resources available to give them the answers (i.e. textbooks, MCSE Cram's etc), but with a test within the interview, they won't necessarily know the answer until they see the test.
What if they are not wasting their brain remembering all of the exact parameters for every obscure function, but instead know just which function to use and know where to immediately go to find out the information they need?
Taking a test during a job interview means that they are serious about the situation.
Well, if they are serious, they should be required to hire you if you pass. I don't know how many hours I have wasted taking and passing tests from brainbench, Oracle, Sybase, Cheetah, etc. and they still didn't hire me. They should at least be required to compensate me for my time. Some of the larger companies now have their own application process where you have to spend about an hour building a profile and putting in your resume. If you were out of work and desperately looking for a job, you could spend 30-50 hours a week just filling in these ridiculously lengthy profiles, just to hope for maybe one or two calls back.
Then you have companies that aren't really looking to hire anyone, but just want to find out how to do something, so they ask the interviewees how to solve their real world problem. If you get it wrong, they don't hire you. If you get it right, then they don't need you, so they don't hire you.
Then you have the ones where they just figured out some complex problem after spending hundreds of hours on it and now that they have the solution, they ask you to solve it during your half hour interview and look down their nose at you if you can't.
Must suck that your time isn't worth anything.
Two properties of a theory are: must be possible to disprove; and must be able to predict results of a test.
So we should refuse to believe in a thing unless it can be proven wrong?
Is it legal to commit crimes against the wealthy now?
Lots of people without money tend to despise those with money. I was one of those when I was growing up as poor white trash, then with some luck, some smarts and some hard work, I got fairly well off, then with a lot of luck of the wrong kind, I am now back down to middle class. But now that I have walked a mile in a rich man's shoes I no longer despise those with wealth. Instead, I despise those who took my wealth away from me. Namely Osama Bin Ladin and Dennis Kozlowski.
I've never understood these claims about Narnia being religious. I guess the last book in the series is a bit, but most of it is just a story.
When I first read the series, I was very young and not aware of C.S. Lewis' religion. I noticed the similarity to the Christ story in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I was shocked that he could get away with something like that. Later, when I found out that he was a Christian, it all made sense. Sort of like how black people can call each other the name that white people can't, Christians can write parallels to Christ into their stories that atheists would never get away with. And I say this as a Christian myself.
Has anyone seen my cat?
Phooey on your cat! Where did all the dolphins go?
Uhhh... one problem - they're not actually doing any collisions yet - so plenty of time for a blackhole to form and swallow us all (or for the blackhole to consume more funding ;) )
How exactly do they think that high speed collisions are going to cause black holes? Do they think that slamming two particles together fast enough will cause them to be close enough together to have a near infinite density required for light to not be able to escape? I would think you would need a lot more speed and a lot more mass, but then I am just a layman. I don't have access to the technical resources that crackpots do.
but when you are an engeneer who uses the computer all
Four years ago I didn't even know how to SPELL engeneer and now I ARE one!
You should have your email client check for new email every 5 minutes.
My Outlook only pulls new e-mails every 5 minutes, but that tends to lead to the situation where someone will call me or IM me and ask if I have had a chance to respond to their e-mail yet, even thought I haven't received it yet.
Of course you have to understand that i work at a company where I have 10 standing meetings on my calendar, and if I show up, I find out that they moved it to another day or time, and I also regularly get asked if I can be in an 8:00 A.M. meeting at 8:10 A.M. (at which time I am usually on my way to work because unless I was specifically notified that I need to be at work earlier, I usually show up between 8:30 and 9).
Don't get me started on the number of meetings scheduled at lunch time that are not lunch meetings, or the fact that we have two deadlines daily, one at noon and one at 1:00 P.M.
If Humans can manipulate matter to such a degree as to create life from non-life, it proves that God was not nessisary to create life.
No, in order to prove THAT you would have to create the VERY FIRST life from non-life, which is impossible to prove both because of the logistics and the paradox.
Also, what they created does not meet the scientific criteria for life.
How do you propose a non-tasty egg reproduce to pass on its non-tasty genes, given its tastiness is unknown until reproduction is impossible ?
Evolution is a numbers game. If a particular chicken (in the wild, not farm raised) had the bad tasting egg gene and survived to maturity and laid a clutch of eggs that tasted bad, a predator would be more likely to eat a few but not all, whereas it would probably eat all of another chickens eggs. Eventually, the surviving chickens could conceivably weed out all the chickens with good tasting eggs.
However, on an equal footing here is the possibility that predators could develop a taste for bad tasting eggs and the ones that liked the bad tasting eggs would be more likely to survive to maturity.
Then again, there is the likelihood that egg defense is only one small step in the reaching of maturity for a chicken, and probably not even the hardest step. There was more pressure to develop a way to fly short distances than to make bad tasting eggs.
By the way, my belief and defense of this particular possible avenue of evolutionary pressure does not dissuade me in the slightest from my belief in God.
It is a national plan, but I can use it internationally, they just don't tell me the rates until I get the bill. Of course, I would assume they would rip me off if I used the phone internationally, and so I don't. However, I would not expect them to rip me off $20,000 for a couple of photos. I would expect them to rip me off by perhaps $20 or $30, which is still too much for a couple of photos.
So now we need to tell people what they can charge for their service?
Absolutely. The nature of a free market economy is that the buyers have a price that they are willing to buy at and the sellers have a price that they are willing to sell at. When those prices coincide, transactions take place. However, in this case, both sides have agreed on a price, but under certain terms and conditions, which are probably spelled out in the fine print, the seller's price is hundreds of times higher than normal, and the exact amount of this charge I am willing to bet is not covered in the agreed upon contract, and is probably somewhat difficult to ascertain with any accuracy prior to the charges taking place.
The idiots that signed the contract in this case, ARE, responsible.
That's funny, I have my cell phone contract right here in my office and it doesn't mention how much cell phone service, or sending pictures would cost in Canada.
You're perfectly free not to enter into a contract with any cell provider.
Well, many people may be, but my last three jobs have REQUIRED me to have a cell phone.
what they shouldn't have done is offer the 80/20 loans with no PMI.
PMI is a big scam. It is insurance for the banks, but YOU have to pay it. Heck, I could be paying my mortgage down another couple of hundred per month if it wasn't for the insurance I have to pay to cover the banks butt. And I've never missed a payment, yet my premium stays the same. PMI is a scam that was lobbied for by the lenders and made law by the government as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since you have to pay more money than you should have to for the loan, you are more likely to need the PMI. My PMI payment is about 15% of my P&I amount. Incredible!
I know, you are saying "why not put 20% down"? Well, this was right after Osama destroyed the economy, and I was out of work, sold my cars, sold my house, lived off of credit cars, and was just getting back into a house. I put down 10% and the bank qualified me for a 80/10 loan with my 10% to make the PMI unnecessary. But two days before the closing, they converted it to an 85% loan and I had to come up with 15% down, which meant dipping into friends and relatives money (which you technically can't do, but what can you do in such a situation). Of course, they made it an 85% loan and not 80% because at 80% I wouldn't have had to pay PMI and they wouldn't get their kickback or whatever from the PMI company.
I should have told them to go spit and found another mortgage company, but by that point my Mom had sold her house that we were living in (she was going to move in with us) so we had nowhere to go and the mortgage company knew they could screw us.
I will complain about any company's advertising if they are a company whose products or services I use. Instead of spending the money on advertising, they could be spending the money on making the product or service better or cheaper. Spending money on advertising only make sense if the profit from the increase in sales overcomes the cost of the ad, which despite what marketers tell you, I am not convinced that this is ever the case.
The most obvious case is when my neighborhood utility or phone monopoly advertises when they could be lowering my rates instead.
I must really be dense, because even after the commercial was over, I STILL thought it was for a shoe store. I thought it was for Payless as a matter of fact. I thought it was pretty clever how they showed that even a rich guy like Bill Gates is still thrifty about buying shoes. Even so much as to get a frequent shopper discount card. Now that is a rich guy who wants to STAY rich.
But I guess that is not what the commercial is about.
We have to show everyone that global warming is caused by a lack of sunspots...
But, that is not true. It is the other way around. The lack of sunspots is caused by global warming.