How about don't lend that much money to someone who you can be pretty sure won't pay the money back?
I support that statement 100%. But the problem is with the federal government; banks have to make those loans because politicians don't have the spine to tell a student "No". Same as the housing bubble; banks didn't want to make loans to low-income people with bad credit, but they were required to have a certain percentage of those mortgages on their books by the Community Reinvestment Act thanks to Jimmy and Slick Willy.
They have a very big interest in student loans; without affordable loans the number of students would drop dramatically. Students who don't pay back their loans are costing everyone who does make their payments extra in the form of higher interest rates. Instead of getting a big attitude, try working with the system instead of against it.
...what happens if a student contacts the lender and informs them of the problem. I know people who have done this, lenders understand and generally work with you if you explain the situation. Not so much if you just stop making payments.
What's to stop them from runaway population growth in the atmosphere. Night and day, knoshing on CO2 and making light all over the globe? In fact, why didn't they do exactly that eons ago? Maybe because what's describe is impossible.
The point in having an aircraft like the F-22 is that countries like North Korea or Syria or Iran know that they have absolutely no chance against it. Pick a fight and your air force is gone. Period.
Do engineering students still take drafting courses? Even if you never need to make an engineering drawing, I believe that learning how to make them gives one a better ability to observe the structure and relationship of things. Of course da VInci was better at drawing than most of us.
It is very practical if you need a ship that can sail to a spot and then generate a descent amount of electricity to run equipment.
But that's not what they demonstrated. If you need a ship that can sail to a spot in in less than several months you need a more concentrated source of power. True that solar panels would allow some equipment to be operated if you want to stop somewhere in the middle of the ocean for whatever reason, but solar powered lights and radio beacons have been around for decades.
We have 2 major parties one of which is a coalition, but that is irrelevant.
That's hardly irrelevant. Without the support of a small minority party that has something around 13% of the vote, Labor would not be in the majority. Think about what that means.
The Department of Homeland Security isn't involved in chasing copyright violators. TorrentFreaks makes a random association of DHS and Napolitano's visit to O'Dwyer's legal issues with the Department of Justice.
The article says they are rewording the message. On the other hand they wouldn't want to give too many hints on how to side step the spam filter. Spammers versus spam filters is a constant arms race
The article seems to say 500KW per hour, I have no idea what that means either. It does state that the batteries can make it go 300KM when charged 100%, but there's no mention of how long it takes to charge them or whether the motors can be used while charging. I assume they spent a lot of time in port, eighteen months is a long time.
How many times over the years have we heard that claim? Does anyone remember "bubble memory"? Is was going to replace magnetic media. Optical drives were going to replace magnetic media. SSD were going to replace magnetic media. Now diamonds? Okay. But until then, get off my lawn.
If all the people in the kitchen need is a media consumption device than any table will do fine. Beyond that you need something with a real keyboard and mouse. Speaking from experience here (I actually own an iPad, won as a door prize); tablets are okay if you don't need to enter much besides a short string of text. I wouldn't buy a replacement if the freebie I have gets broken.
Where I live (Pennsylvania, USA) using a phone for anything except a GPS while driving is illegal. If course it's impossible for a police officer to prove you were doing something else so the law is generally unenforceable, but it made some people somewhere feel good. Apparently there's still no law against being a complete idiot while driving, but that seems to be everywhere.
Do you realize that every single domestic terror plot foiled by the FBI was created by the FBI?
I don't think "created" is accurate. The plots the foil are because they intervene in time to stop an attack. Sometimes they don't act in time and people are killed. Is that what you would prefer?
They did exactly that. Threat is 5 years, acting on that threat is life without parole. People are arrested and convicted of that crime in the US on a fairly regular basis.
Please explain how they made fools of themselves. They caught up with the guy pretty quickly; unfortunately after he committed some pretty heinous crimes.
They released 17 documents, and state that they capture thousands.
It's an election year. Obama makes a trip to Kabul on the anniversary of the raid to sign an "agreement", carefully selected documents from the raid are released, there's even a Hollywood movie coming out shortly before the election with conveniently leaked classified information etc., etc.
Sounds like they were looking for an excuse to terminate him. Usually they go through expense reports first, since it's nearly impossible to get them 100% right; and a person who has other issues with the company is probably cheating anyway. Failing that they can use false claims on the application; but again that's unlikely to happen unless they were already fishing.
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How about don't lend that much money to someone who you can be pretty sure won't pay the money back?
I support that statement 100%. But the problem is with the federal government; banks have to make those loans because politicians don't have the spine to tell a student "No". Same as the housing bubble; banks didn't want to make loans to low-income people with bad credit, but they were required to have a certain percentage of those mortgages on their books by the Community Reinvestment Act thanks to Jimmy and Slick Willy.
they should have no interest in doing so
They have a very big interest in student loans; without affordable loans the number of students would drop dramatically. Students who don't pay back their loans are costing everyone who does make their payments extra in the form of higher interest rates. Instead of getting a big attitude, try working with the system instead of against it.
...what happens if a student contacts the lender and informs them of the problem. I know people who have done this, lenders understand and generally work with you if you explain the situation. Not so much if you just stop making payments.
It was thought up by someone who lacks the basic self-esteem required to choose their own clothing.
No, it was thought up by smart marketers who know that their customers lack said self-esteem. Pushing fads has been around forever.
Building in subtle (or not so subtle) differences from one generation to the next *is* the process, there was no error or failure here.
What's to stop them from runaway population growth in the atmosphere. Night and day, knoshing on CO2 and making light all over the globe? In fact, why didn't they do exactly that eons ago? Maybe because what's describe is impossible.
The point in having an aircraft like the F-22 is that countries like North Korea or Syria or Iran know that they have absolutely no chance against it. Pick a fight and your air force is gone. Period.
Do engineering students still take drafting courses? Even if you never need to make an engineering drawing, I believe that learning how to make them gives one a better ability to observe the structure and relationship of things. Of course da VInci was better at drawing than most of us.
I suppose this is how much energy the boat would harvest on a good day (?).
Yea, that makes more sense. Roughly the equivalent of having a 30hp motor when the weather is just right, which might be the scooter reference.
It is very practical if you need a ship that can sail to a spot and then generate a descent amount of electricity to run equipment.
But that's not what they demonstrated. If you need a ship that can sail to a spot in in less than several months you need a more concentrated source of power. True that solar panels would allow some equipment to be operated if you want to stop somewhere in the middle of the ocean for whatever reason, but solar powered lights and radio beacons have been around for decades.
We have 2 major parties one of which is a coalition, but that is irrelevant.
That's hardly irrelevant. Without the support of a small minority party that has something around 13% of the vote, Labor would not be in the majority. Think about what that means.
The Department of Homeland Security isn't involved in chasing copyright violators. TorrentFreaks makes a random association of DHS and Napolitano's visit to O'Dwyer's legal issues with the Department of Justice.
The article says they are rewording the message. On the other hand they wouldn't want to give too many hints on how to side step the spam filter. Spammers versus spam filters is a constant arms race
In about 100 years or so I would expect space launches will be reliable enough to shoot the small amount that can't be recycled into the Sun.
The article seems to say 500KW per hour, I have no idea what that means either. It does state that the batteries can make it go 300KM when charged 100%, but there's no mention of how long it takes to charge them or whether the motors can be used while charging. I assume they spent a lot of time in port, eighteen months is a long time.
How many times over the years have we heard that claim? Does anyone remember "bubble memory"? Is was going to replace magnetic media. Optical drives were going to replace magnetic media. SSD were going to replace magnetic media. Now diamonds? Okay. But until then, get off my lawn.
If all the people in the kitchen need is a media consumption device than any table will do fine. Beyond that you need something with a real keyboard and mouse. Speaking from experience here (I actually own an iPad, won as a door prize); tablets are okay if you don't need to enter much besides a short string of text. I wouldn't buy a replacement if the freebie I have gets broken.
Where I live (Pennsylvania, USA) using a phone for anything except a GPS while driving is illegal. If course it's impossible for a police officer to prove you were doing something else so the law is generally unenforceable, but it made some people somewhere feel good. Apparently there's still no law against being a complete idiot while driving, but that seems to be everywhere.
Do you realize that every single domestic terror plot foiled by the FBI was created by the FBI?
I don't think "created" is accurate. The plots the foil are because they intervene in time to stop an attack. Sometimes they don't act in time and people are killed. Is that what you would prefer?
They did exactly that. Threat is 5 years, acting on that threat is life without parole. People are arrested and convicted of that crime in the US on a fairly regular basis.
Please explain how they made fools of themselves. They caught up with the guy pretty quickly; unfortunately after he committed some pretty heinous crimes.
He sent threats to the president of France. That a crime most countries would take pretty seriously.
They released 17 documents, and state that they capture thousands.
It's an election year. Obama makes a trip to Kabul on the anniversary of the raid to sign an "agreement", carefully selected documents from the raid are released, there's even a Hollywood movie coming out shortly before the election with conveniently leaked classified information etc., etc.
Sounds like they were looking for an excuse to terminate him. Usually they go through expense reports first, since it's nearly impossible to get them 100% right; and a person who has other issues with the company is probably cheating anyway. Failing that they can use false claims on the application; but again that's unlikely to happen unless they were already fishing.
Or just pay the local "tax" and get on with your retirement.