Oh, and that helicopter, was trawling an EMS (ElectroMagnetic Signals) antenna as well as a P-Band InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) antenna.
And that helps find antennas LISTENING to something instead of broadcasting something?
Good point. The school is not getting funding it never had. But it is not getting the funding it has been designed to receive.
Number and size of schools are planned regarding to the number of people, family, pupils living in the area served by it. A school that's designed for x students, needs an amount of y$ simply for upkeeping and maintanance.
If enough parents pull their kids out, funding will fall below that threshhold and the viscious circle of decay begins. School can't afford to have computer labs or expensive science labs, even more parents try to avoid that school because of teh bad state of computer or science labs and so on....
In this case, as it is about sending your kid to a private or public school, it IS an either or descission.
Further, playing with your kids instead the kids 2 roads down doesn't take anything away from them. (Unless of course, for some reason, you used to do it) They won't have less than they had before.
On the other hand, pulling your school from public school takes away funding from that school, so there is a negative effect.
And to add a bit to my first post. Even if it sounded like that, I don't BLAME anyone. I'm just stating egoistic motives. Which are rather quite natural. Heck, I'd try to give my kid the best possible education, too, even if that is done on a large scale might make the local public school worse and kills the future of those kids who are stuck there.
But it is the idea of "society" tha EVERYONE profits if people stop being egoistic maniacs only caring for their own wellbeing and do indeed sacrifice a bit of their own in order to gain even more benefits provided by a working society.
Most public suburban and rural public schools are actually pretty good..
Look, the statistics on public schools are HIGHLY determined by demographics. If you're a middle class family in a middle class area with middle class students then you're probably going to get a pretty good education. However, if its a very poor area with parents that didn't graduate high school or might not be able to read english... then chances are the school is going to be a nightmare.
So either you'll get a good education in public school, too or you're too poor to send your kid to private school anyway. Not much of a choice then.
I think it's the same as soon as you attach price tags to education. From then on, you university degree will not be a sign of your academic achievments, but rather "the best degree that your money could buy".
That's a pithy aphorism, but really it's complete bull sh&*t. If you asked a carpenter to build you a house using nothing but a butter knife and a rock, what kind of results do you'd think you'd get? What do you think the "craftsman" would have to say about his tools?
Why should he blame the butter knife for being a butter knife? I bet he wouldn't blame the tools, but rather the idiot who selected those tools.
Ah, ok, But that statistic does NOT give the average time without power per year, but the number of days per year on which a power outage happens.
OK, let me compile the numbers:
Numbers of days with power interruptions: Germany 0.23 (source: nationmaster) vs. US ?? Average time without power per year: US 8 hours (source still unknown) vs Germany 17 minutes (source: verivox article)
If we combine these numbers: A typical German household can expect a power outage every four years that will last 68 minutes.
and because the sender usually doesn't know, this ruling will have almost no effect at all. No implication has been made on how the sender could, might or should know that the recipient is driving. This is an hypothetical If the sender (somehow) knows the the recipient is driving and knows him well enough to know he's irresponsible enough to read text while driving then he might be held responsible. Which in this case would limit responsibilite to cases where the sender is somehow responsible.
The source of the second one is the "World Development Indicators database". So it makes sense that 1st world countries are not completely represented in that data. The US average of 8 hours (0.33 days) compares fairly well with a similarly geographically large country such as Russia (2.73 days), or a well-developed industrial power such as Germany (0.23 days).
Where did you get those 0.23 days for Germany from? Because that's exactly what I looked up and found my 17 minutes.
(I know this was meant as a troll/joke but you're hitting the nail)
No. They have the sample size of "1 earth". Exactly "1 earth". Of course that's due to the lack of spare earths that we could compare ours too. But it is exactly what makes this whole subject statistically "challenging".
Delivering electricity at constant voltage and frequency is already hard.
Delivering electricity at constant voltage and frequency in a grid where a few wandering clouds and a gust of wind create production spikes is definitly hard.
Using credit cards like that is using them as a form of payment and not using them as source of credit. And car and house were exactly the two exceptions I already mentioned where credit is used to spread a payment across a longer timeframe and not primarily to spend money you don't have.
Now, suppose you've lived to 30 without borrowing a single dollar commercially. It's possible you've been an excellent money manager and earner, or it's possible you've been living like a bum since being kicked out of your mother's basement.
But either way, he didn't spend more money than he had.
Not taking on ANY credit is not smart and can actually hurt your credit score more than a few late payments.
I always wanted to know what moron came up with thar hare-brained idea. I mean, what else could be a better indicator of being financially unstable than that you have to rely on borrowing money on a regular level?
I got a $300 credit line, she got 5K. My second card eventually got approved, $500. Her second? Over $4000. At this point she has $12k in credit and I have around $4
If you think that the amount of money someone might be willing to borrow you has some real effects you're missing something: No matter what the amount of credit is, you have to pay it back. If you buy something for $2000 on your credit card, you have to pay pack $2000, no matter if you're taking it from a $4k or $200k line of credit.
Having a credit limit of $5000 does not mean you have $5000. Best is, to pway with your own money. If you don't have the money to buy something, you can't afford buying it. (*)
(*) Exceptions are long-term investment goods. Translates to "house and car" for most of us. But you're not buying that on your credit card limit.
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Oh, and that helicopter, was trawling an EMS (ElectroMagnetic Signals) antenna as well as a P-Band InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) antenna.
And that helps find antennas LISTENING to something instead of broadcasting something?
...and be replaced by Google wallet.
they'll detain you until you tell them the passwords to decrypt that random data into something legible.
Good point. The school is not getting funding it never had. But it is not getting the funding it has been designed to receive.
Number and size of schools are planned regarding to the number of people, family, pupils living in the area served by it. A school that's designed for x students, needs an amount of y$ simply for upkeeping and maintanance.
If enough parents pull their kids out, funding will fall below that threshhold and the viscious circle of decay begins. School can't afford to have computer labs or expensive science labs, even more parents try to avoid that school because of teh bad state of computer or science labs and so on....
In this case, as it is about sending your kid to a private or public school, it IS an either or descission.
Further, playing with your kids instead the kids 2 roads down doesn't take anything away from them. (Unless of course, for some reason, you used to do it) They won't have less than they had before.
On the other hand, pulling your school from public school takes away funding from that school, so there is a negative effect.
And to add a bit to my first post. Even if it sounded like that, I don't BLAME anyone. I'm just stating egoistic motives. Which are rather quite natural. Heck, I'd try to give my kid the best possible education, too, even if that is done on a large scale might make the local public school worse and kills the future of those kids who are stuck there.
But it is the idea of "society" tha EVERYONE profits if people stop being egoistic maniacs only caring for their own wellbeing and do indeed sacrifice a bit of their own in order to gain even more benefits provided by a working society.
What would be the difference to school then?
Most public suburban and rural public schools are actually pretty good..
Look, the statistics on public schools are HIGHLY determined by demographics. If you're a middle class family in a middle class area with middle class students then you're probably going to get a pretty good education. However, if its a very poor area with parents that didn't graduate high school or might not be able to read english... then chances are the school is going to be a nightmare.
So either you'll get a good education in public school, too or you're too poor to send your kid to private school anyway. Not much of a choice then.
I think it's the same as soon as you attach price tags to education. From then on, you university degree will not be a sign of your academic achievments, but rather "the best degree that your money could buy".
I'm not passive-agressive. I'm active-aggressive. What you perceive as passive is only a political correct, sugar coating politeness.
It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.
That's a pithy aphorism, but really it's complete bull sh&*t. If you asked a carpenter to build you a house using nothing but a butter knife and a rock, what kind of results do you'd think you'd get? What do you think the "craftsman" would have to say about his tools?
Why should he blame the butter knife for being a butter knife? I bet he wouldn't blame the tools, but rather the idiot who selected those tools.
Where did you get those 0.23 days for Germany from? Because that's exactly what I looked up and found my 17 minutes.
http://www.verivox.de/nachrichten/pro-jahr-im-durchschnitt-157-minuten-stromausfall-65179.aspx
And I start to question the reliability of those statistics. BOTH. 6 hours vs 1/4 hour for the SAME ITEM?
Your previous http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_ele_out_day-energy-electrical-outages-days link lists Germany at 0.23 days in 2005.
Ah, ok, But that statistic does NOT give the average time without power per year, but the number of days per year on which a power outage happens.
OK, let me compile the numbers:
Numbers of days with power interruptions: Germany 0.23 (source: nationmaster) vs. US ??
Average time without power per year: US 8 hours (source still unknown) vs Germany 17 minutes (source: verivox article)
If we combine these numbers: A typical German household can expect a power outage every four years that will last 68 minutes.
AND knowing that regularly read their messages while driving.
and because the sender usually doesn't know, this ruling will have almost no effect at all. No implication has been made on how the sender could, might or should know that the recipient is driving. This is an hypothetical If the sender (somehow) knows the the recipient is driving and knows him well enough to know he's irresponsible enough to read text while driving then he might be held responsible. Which in this case would limit responsibilite to cases where the sender is somehow responsible.
The source of the second one is the "World Development Indicators database". So it makes sense that 1st world countries are not completely represented in that data. The US average of 8 hours (0.33 days) compares fairly well with a similarly geographically large country such as Russia (2.73 days), or a well-developed industrial power such as Germany (0.23 days).
Where did you get those 0.23 days for Germany from? Because that's exactly what I looked up and found my 17 minutes.
http://www.verivox.de/nachrichten/pro-jahr-im-durchschnitt-157-minuten-stromausfall-65179.aspx
And I start to question the reliability of those statistics. BOTH. 6 hours vs 1/4 hour for the SAME ITEM?
Come on.. 8 hours without power outage IS bad for a industrial country that has a whole economy relying on electricity.
And as I didn't pull out the 17min out of thin air, it's quite feasible.
I plead guilty on choosing Slovenia as comparision because it soundes the worst, but I'm NOT using anecdotes:
http://www.verivox.de/nachrichten/pro-jahr-im-durchschnitt-157-minuten-stromausfall-65179.aspx
It even has details statistics to in- or exclude acts of god as reason for power outage.
My personal anectodal power outage statistics is pretty similar to yours. (not counting planned downtime for meter exchange)
And that's why I was shocked by the 8 hours and looked of our stats in the first place.
Intresting chart:
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z6409butolt8la_&ctype=c&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=s&met_y=gci_2.07&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&dimp_c=country:world&idim=country:USA:JPN&ifdim=country&ind=false&icfg
According to this, the quality of the US poer grid is compareable to Slovenia.
Unfortunately, this one here doesn't have data for the US: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_ele_out_day-energy-electrical-outages-days
But 8 hours power outage per year sounds more like a developing country to me. (Here: 17min in 2010. Drop from 18min in 2009)
(I know this was meant as a troll/joke but you're hitting the nail)
No. They have the sample size of "1 earth". Exactly "1 earth". Of course that's due to the lack of spare earths that we could compare ours too. But it is exactly what makes this whole subject statistically "challenging".
Delivering electricity to a socket isn't hard.
Delivering electricity at constant voltage and frequency is already hard.
Delivering electricity at constant voltage and frequency in a grid where a few wandering clouds and a gust of wind create production spikes is definitly hard.
Then it's not worth glorifying it.
Using credit cards like that is using them as a form of payment and not using them as source of credit. And car and house were exactly the two exceptions I already mentioned where credit is used to spread a payment across a longer timeframe and not primarily to spend money you don't have.
Now, suppose you've lived to 30 without borrowing a single dollar commercially. It's possible you've been an excellent money manager and earner, or it's possible you've been living like a bum since being kicked out of your mother's basement.
But either way, he didn't spend more money than he had.
Collecting public information in preperation for a job interview.
i didn't know that browsing to public webpages is a crime outside of China, too.
Not taking on ANY credit is not smart and can actually hurt your credit score more than a few late payments.
I always wanted to know what moron came up with thar hare-brained idea. I mean, what else could be a better indicator of being financially unstable than that you have to rely on borrowing money on a regular level?
I got a $300 credit line, she got 5K. My second card eventually got approved, $500. Her second? Over $4000. At this point she has $12k in credit and I have around $4
If you think that the amount of money someone might be willing to borrow you has some real effects you're missing something: No matter what the amount of credit is, you have to pay it back. If you buy something for $2000 on your credit card, you have to pay pack $2000, no matter if you're taking it from a $4k or $200k line of credit.
Having a credit limit of $5000 does not mean you have $5000. Best is, to pway with your own money. If you don't have the money to buy something, you can't afford buying it. (*)
(*) Exceptions are long-term investment goods. Translates to "house and car" for most of us. But you're not buying that on your credit card limit.