So, I am i the middle of starting my own business. I am investing virtually all my savings, while I have a baby on the way, a year into a new mortgage, etc.
So, I am going to risk everything I have to start a successful (hopefully) business and you want to limit what I can make off the business?
Simply put, fuck you.
Your situation is different from a CEOs situation. A CEO has put nothing at risk. They were hired to do a job, and paid a ridiculous sum of money to do it. If the company goes under, he will receive first dibs of the company assets, and he will be hired up by somebody else for more pay. The people who bear the risk are the low level workers. If the company goes under, they are just out of a job, probably with no notice, and they may have even unpaid payroll and vacation time that they will never be able to recoup. They are the ones putting in all of the overtime to make the company more profitable. They pour collectively millions of dollars worth of their time into the company. They are literally bankrolling the company with their unpaid overtime.
Not that I agree with this law. I think it's bunk.
If Norway was really serious about making a dent in Global Warming, they would stop encouraging having babies.
If people in first world countries stop having babies, then who will feed all the people in the third world who will continue to have babies that they have no hope of feeding?
once they find a decent way to mass-produce vat-grown protein that replicates taste and mouth-feel of "real" meat, beef cattle will decline to a niche market. ..
They've got a tough row to hoe. These days it seems like real meat doesn't even have the taste and texture of real meat.
Looks like we're going to need a bigger plane. The only planes that would be cruising at 10k feet would be non-pressurized ones. Even on a short hop, a jet is going to be cruising at least 25,000 feet.
Tuition costs this semester will be BTC 9.8738100476.
Wait, make that BTC 5.6820973827.
Wait no, make that BTC 3.8260399174.
Ahh wait, it's BTC 24.84028975894.... well, I'm sure by tomorrow morning the value of a bitcoin will have stabilized, so we'll post the final tuition rate then.
Bitcoin may stabilize, but the cost of tuition will continue to outpace every index of inflation in the world.
Bitcoin has gone up by a factor of 5 in recent weeks, but it still probably buys the same amount of tuition.
Did he happen to mention the constitution of a particular country? Or was he referring to defending the "constitution" as in "the embodied compositional elements" of the present government?
Will it ultimately settle on being valued at approximately the amount of energy required to compute it, or something else?
I would think not. For one thing, if you could only get out of it what it cost to compute it, then nobody would compute it (outside of the people who are really pursuing it for philosophical reasons. Believe me, those people do exist). Further, at some point, all of the bitcoins will be mined, and then there will be no reason for it to stabilize on.
I think right now the value of it is somewhat tied to how many people are desiring to use it. There are only so many of them. At some point, if adoption became more universal, and the bitcoins had all been mined, then it should be slightly deflationary, as long as the world economy kept expanding. At least that is the theory. It should be the index against which inflation is measured.
The autopilot functions similar to password fill-in on your web browser. It makes it much more convenient for you to login to all of your sites without having to remember all those passwords.
The autopilot failing is like when your computer crashes, and now neither your browser, nor you, remember your passwords.
I'd think the recent jump in bitcoin price would have made GPU mining profitable again for a little while.
Nope. I have a high end GPU card (which I did not buy for bitcoin, but did use for mining for awhile when it was worth the money), and using the current difficulty I would spend more money on electricity than the payout is worth. The difficulty is like 100 times what it was when I last mined, while the conversion rate is only about 40 times higher. I COULD mine anyway in the hopes that it will continue to go up, but I am not willing to sink real money into it.
Is this another way for them to pay absolutely no attention to the Do Not Call List? My number is on the DNC list, and yet I get about 6 calls a day from telemarketers. I get maybe three calls a week from people who have any legitimate reason to be calling me.
The fines are not stiff enough for violaters of DNC. Further, the telemarketers use caller ID spoofing to not present a legitimate callback number so that you can determine who they are in order to prosecute. The only way to actually catch them is to buy one of their products and find out where the money goes, and who wants to do that? Even when that happens they are probably being paid by another company to sell their wares, so you still wouldn't find the telemarketing company, although you should be able to find out from the company that apparently hired them.
Yes, it will cause all kinds of problems in a small engine. Lawnmowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, two stroke motorbikes, all of these things will have a very short life on ethanol. Even my 4-stroke generator on our RV had an issue with ethanol. We live in Oklahoma and have the option of real gas or ethanol degraded gas. I always put real gas in. However, when we went down to the Texas coast, we had to fill up in Texas, where they don't have an real gas. After I got back, my generator was having problems where it wouldn't stay running unless I manually choked it. I replaced spark plugs, air filter, oil, oil filter, soaked the carburetor in sea foam, all to no avail. Eventually I just managed to finally get it running well by running regular gas through it and running it for half an hour at a time with the choke manually engaged and alternately leaving the regular gas in the generator to dissolve buildup for a total of probably about 30 hours. Estimated cost of putting one tank of ethanol in? About $500 assuming my personal time is only worth $10 an hour.
In this case, the animal was not in a cage. it was in a corral, which had grass in it. Apparently since the rabbit was domesticated, it didn't realize it could eat the grass, or maybe it didn't like the grass. The really amazing part is that the neighbor (who filed the charges) testified that she noted that the rabbit was not getting fed, and yet she didn't actually do anything about it either. The food was not under lock and key. I think the neighbor ought to get part of the blame as well. But my understanding is that she made a deal with the prosecution. In exchange for her testimony, she wouldn't be charged. I can't believe that that is legal.
Perhaps you should reconsider the quality of the people you associate with. Just sayin'
One of them is related to my best friend. It's not like I hang around with them. But I have spent enough time around them to know that they are not malicious or evil. They are trying to do the right thing. They are just young and make a lot of dumb mistakes.
That's 50+ years in jail. If it was a person, there wouldn't be a problem.
You say this in jest, but I know a person who killed a human being directly with her automobile while drunk and received probation. This person's girlfriend accidentally killed a pet rabbit by not remembering to feed it, and she is facing jail time.
They may have used price as tested, but they were definitely in the $35k - $45k range.
Ford's home page claims the Ford Focus electric starts at $35,200. The Top Gear show had the Leaf, the 500e and the Focus.
I also find it interesting that the foreign cars are actually cheaper than the domestic cars.
It has always fascinated me how the "destination charge" on American cars would often be even higher than the cars that had to travel from the other side of the world, as opposed to the factory a state or two over.
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So, I am i the middle of starting my own business. I am investing virtually all my savings, while I have a baby on the way, a year into a new mortgage, etc. So, I am going to risk everything I have to start a successful (hopefully) business and you want to limit what I can make off the business? Simply put, fuck you.
Your situation is different from a CEOs situation. A CEO has put nothing at risk. They were hired to do a job, and paid a ridiculous sum of money to do it. If the company goes under, he will receive first dibs of the company assets, and he will be hired up by somebody else for more pay. The people who bear the risk are the low level workers. If the company goes under, they are just out of a job, probably with no notice, and they may have even unpaid payroll and vacation time that they will never be able to recoup. They are the ones putting in all of the overtime to make the company more profitable. They pour collectively millions of dollars worth of their time into the company. They are literally bankrolling the company with their unpaid overtime.
Not that I agree with this law. I think it's bunk.
No. The american dream is to become wealthy. It is not dependent upon someone else becoming poor. The economy is not a zero sum game.
Except the boss probably couldn't get to work either, unless maybe he has a bike.
What? The executive class condescend to ride in Public Transportation? Scoff!
Cows produce 100 litres of methane every day so that's a lot of farting.
Methane is a gas. Is this 100 litres at standard atmospheric pressure?
But it is better for the climate.
Not really, do you know how much food is required to raise a human until they are big enough to be eaten?
If Norway was really serious about making a dent in Global Warming, they would stop encouraging having babies.
If people in first world countries stop having babies, then who will feed all the people in the third world who will continue to have babies that they have no hope of feeding?
once they find a decent way to mass-produce vat-grown protein that replicates taste and mouth-feel of "real" meat, beef cattle will decline to a niche market. . .
They've got a tough row to hoe. These days it seems like real meat doesn't even have the taste and texture of real meat.
10k feet is cruising altitude
Looks like we're going to need a bigger plane. The only planes that would be cruising at 10k feet would be non-pressurized ones. Even on a short hop, a jet is going to be cruising at least 25,000 feet.
Tuition costs this semester will be BTC 9.8738100476. Wait, make that BTC 5.6820973827. Wait no, make that BTC 3.8260399174. Ahh wait, it's BTC 24.84028975894. ... well, I'm sure by tomorrow morning the value of a bitcoin will have stabilized, so we'll post the final tuition rate then.
Bitcoin may stabilize, but the cost of tuition will continue to outpace every index of inflation in the world.
Bitcoin has gone up by a factor of 5 in recent weeks, but it still probably buys the same amount of tuition.
So every company on the stock market is a Ponzi scheme too? Interest bearing accounts are a Ponzi scheme?
Obama Says He’ll Defend Constitution
Did he happen to mention the constitution of a particular country? Or was he referring to defending the "constitution" as in "the embodied compositional elements" of the present government?
Will it ultimately settle on being valued at approximately the amount of energy required to compute it, or something else?
I would think not. For one thing, if you could only get out of it what it cost to compute it, then nobody would compute it (outside of the people who are really pursuing it for philosophical reasons. Believe me, those people do exist). Further, at some point, all of the bitcoins will be mined, and then there will be no reason for it to stabilize on.
I think right now the value of it is somewhat tied to how many people are desiring to use it. There are only so many of them. At some point, if adoption became more universal, and the bitcoins had all been mined, then it should be slightly deflationary, as long as the world economy kept expanding. At least that is the theory. It should be the index against which inflation is measured.
Scion, Toyota's badge aimed at young urban crowd, also has no haggle pricing
Every other car dealer in America also offers no haggle pricing. Just pay the price on the sticker.
The autopilot functions similar to password fill-in on your web browser. It makes it much more convenient for you to login to all of your sites without having to remember all those passwords.
The autopilot failing is like when your computer crashes, and now neither your browser, nor you, remember your passwords.
I'd think the recent jump in bitcoin price would have made GPU mining profitable again for a little while.
Nope. I have a high end GPU card (which I did not buy for bitcoin, but did use for mining for awhile when it was worth the money), and using the current difficulty I would spend more money on electricity than the payout is worth. The difficulty is like 100 times what it was when I last mined, while the conversion rate is only about 40 times higher. I COULD mine anyway in the hopes that it will continue to go up, but I am not willing to sink real money into it.
Is this another way for them to pay absolutely no attention to the Do Not Call List? My number is on the DNC list, and yet I get about 6 calls a day from telemarketers. I get maybe three calls a week from people who have any legitimate reason to be calling me.
The fines are not stiff enough for violaters of DNC. Further, the telemarketers use caller ID spoofing to not present a legitimate callback number so that you can determine who they are in order to prosecute. The only way to actually catch them is to buy one of their products and find out where the money goes, and who wants to do that? Even when that happens they are probably being paid by another company to sell their wares, so you still wouldn't find the telemarketing company, although you should be able to find out from the company that apparently hired them.
Yes, it will cause all kinds of problems in a small engine. Lawnmowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, two stroke motorbikes, all of these things will have a very short life on ethanol. Even my 4-stroke generator on our RV had an issue with ethanol. We live in Oklahoma and have the option of real gas or ethanol degraded gas. I always put real gas in. However, when we went down to the Texas coast, we had to fill up in Texas, where they don't have an real gas. After I got back, my generator was having problems where it wouldn't stay running unless I manually choked it. I replaced spark plugs, air filter, oil, oil filter, soaked the carburetor in sea foam, all to no avail. Eventually I just managed to finally get it running well by running regular gas through it and running it for half an hour at a time with the choke manually engaged and alternately leaving the regular gas in the generator to dissolve buildup for a total of probably about 30 hours. Estimated cost of putting one tank of ethanol in? About $500 assuming my personal time is only worth $10 an hour.
In this case, the animal was not in a cage. it was in a corral, which had grass in it. Apparently since the rabbit was domesticated, it didn't realize it could eat the grass, or maybe it didn't like the grass. The really amazing part is that the neighbor (who filed the charges) testified that she noted that the rabbit was not getting fed, and yet she didn't actually do anything about it either. The food was not under lock and key. I think the neighbor ought to get part of the blame as well. But my understanding is that she made a deal with the prosecution. In exchange for her testimony, she wouldn't be charged. I can't believe that that is legal.
Perhaps you should reconsider the quality of the people you associate with. Just sayin'
One of them is related to my best friend. It's not like I hang around with them. But I have spent enough time around them to know that they are not malicious or evil. They are trying to do the right thing. They are just young and make a lot of dumb mistakes.
Shouldn't credit fraud be a jailable offense? Considering the effect it can have on another human being, it ought to have some serious repercussions.
That's 50+ years in jail. If it was a person, there wouldn't be a problem.
You say this in jest, but I know a person who killed a human being directly with her automobile while drunk and received probation. This person's girlfriend accidentally killed a pet rabbit by not remembering to feed it, and she is facing jail time.
Well, to be fair, the TSA was not created to catch terrorists, it was created to prevent terrorist attacks. And it does that, like nothing would.
That's not true. I bought a terrorist prevention rock right after 9/11, and ever since then, there hasn't been a terrorist attack.
If gatorade is so dangerous, then it seems like they shouldn't let it through security even if you drank it.
They may have used price as tested, but they were definitely in the $35k - $45k range.
Ford's home page claims the Ford Focus electric starts at $35,200. The Top Gear show had the Leaf, the 500e and the Focus.
I also find it interesting that the foreign cars are actually cheaper than the domestic cars.
It has always fascinated me how the "destination charge" on American cars would often be even higher than the cars that had to travel from the other side of the world, as opposed to the factory a state or two over.
They are the status-seeking morons who drive 100 miles a day towing air and wouldn't dare drive anything else.
Well, great, they can fill that empty bed with two tons of batteries, and have enough range to make it all the way to work and back.