I was reading a finance forum earlier today, and came across a post from a guy talking about his frugal habits, which included still using Windows 98. That's not frugal, that's insane!
(On the bright side, he also still uses dial-up, so at least the rate at which his zombied PC can spew shit is somewhat limited...)
You should keep it; 2005 is very nearly the best year for TDIs. (If somebody gave me a brand-new TDI, I'd sell it and buy something similar to a 2005.)
some days I've really wanted to shorten 3-panel messages down to 1 or 2, so that you could figure out what they're trying to say while driving by at whatever speed the highway is doing.
Whoever programmed such a 3-panel message is irresponsible. There is long-established research (mostly by a researcher at Texas A&M named Conrad Dudek) that gives guidelines for how to design CMS messages, and one of the most basic guidelines is "motorists don't have time to read 3 screens worth of information."
(Some of that research is pretty interesting, especially if you're working in a traffic management center, it isn't rush hour, and you have nothing better to do.)
By the way, fixed CMSs managed by people for whom it is their full-time job are much more likely to have reasonable messages than the portable CMSs used in construction zones. I look forward to the day when they finally install some damn modems in the things so they can be managed from the TMC...
For example, new diesel vehicles are touted as great for mileage. However, if one factors in the repair costs, and the need to use DEF as a second fuel, the gap can close between a TDI vehicle versus a hybrid or even a plain old gasser.
Quit spreading lies and FUD. First of all, most diesels, including many new "clean diesels" (e.g. the VW Golf/Jetta/Beetle) do not use diesel exhaust fluid (DEF)*. Second, there's nothing inherent to diesels that make them have higher repair costs than "plain old gassers" other than the turbo (and lots of new gassers these days -- like the Ford Ecoboost -- have turbos too).
The real reason why diesels have an undeserved reputation for being expensive to repair is that most of them in the US have been made by VW or Mercedes, but they're expensive to repair because they're German, not because they're diesel!
(*Even some of the "bluetec" engines do not, in fact, use DEF even though they're named after it.)
Do you actually think either party has a goal other than the best schools? The disagreement is over how to achieve that...
...And (perhaps) a disagreement over what "best" means. I say "perhaps" because, to at least some extent, both parties agree that "best" means something entirely different than what most parents would expect (i.e., "an obedient assembly-line worker with no critical thinking skills").
...And those filters screw up using biodiesel, which is ironic since burning biodiesel (at least in my experience using a 1.9L VW engine) produces less soot in the first place.
Whenever you hear "nanoparticle" think "really fine dust"; if the bulk material is toxic, why wouldn't the dust be?
And even if the bulk material isn't toxic, the dust could still be (due to the particles' physical shape, not its chemical properties). See, for example, silicosis.
Actually, I don't miss the stylus much. On a Wacom pad it was perfect, because its stylus detected subtleties that mimicked a pen, pencil, paintbrush... things like that. But, on a tablet or phone (or PDA if anyone remembers what one of those were), it just becomes something that actually slows down texting, gets lost easily, and is nothing more than a glorified stick.
Tablets these days really ought to have modern capacitive touchscreens for touch UI work plus Wacom-style digitizers for handwriting and drawing.
Capital punishment costs orders of magnitude more money than Life in prison. The trials have to be rigorous, and therough, we have to be absolutely sure of the defendants guilt before we execute them.
That's exactly the same standard we're supposed to be using in non-capital cases too!
It is not valid for death sentences to cost more than life sentences. The real problem is that people aren't getting competent and thorough defenses in the initial trial. I would argue it's even more of an injustice for those receiving life sentences because, without the permanence of execution, the public sees it as less of a problem worth fixing.
There are other claims here; the machines are airgapped, and I suspect that the physical site security is pretty good; but the use of old software and hardware adds nothing at all to that.
You have to admit, the old hardware makes it hard for some random officer to violate the air gap by plugging in his USB-using cellphone.
To create synthetic hydrocarbon fuels, all you need is a source of hydrogen (i.e., water) and a source of carbon. The only reason people typically talk about coal in that context is that it's easy to collect carbon from, but if you've got stereotypical "too cheap to meter" nuclear energy then you could just collect CO2 instead.
Now consider the maximum harm caused by sabotaging, say, a 1 GW nuclear plant, a 1 GW coal/NG plant, or a few thousand wind turbines. Except for the first option, you won't come up with a mode of sabotage that will take a few decades to clean up the resulting mess.
That's only because for coal, the "take [more than] a few decades to clean up the resulting mess" is the result of normal operations, not sabotage!
(I realize the person you replied to specifically mentioned photovoltaics, but in disparaging "solar power people" in general you overstated your case.)
The real issue here is that solar is good and nuclear is good, so the "solar zealots" like the grandparent and the "nuclear zealots" like you really ought to be working together to eliminate coal, not fighting amongst yourselves!
So lets take a average family house hold of 90k a year for 3 people. That sounds like a solid middle class number, in some locations it would be upper middle class.
So after taxes per month they get about 4.5k.
2k goes to their home mortgage.
1k will go towards grocery/cleaning supplies (food has gotten expensive)
0.5k will go towards fuel for 2 cars.
0.5k goes to power/telephone/internet/TV
This leaves roughly $500 per month. Now if they have to make care payments and/or school loans they add up too. Meaning this middle class family is just getting by. Sure there are areas where they can cut. but with a family of three, it will be difficult as every person tends to have different ideas where to cut.
Your numbers are wrong, starting with your after-tax income. A 3-person married-filing-jointly household grossing $90K would pay ~$8k in income tax and ~$7k in payroll tax, which works out to ~$75k (or $6,250/month) net. Even using your spending estimates, the household should have $2250 left over.
Of course, even your spending numbers are inflated compared to what people in "normal" (non-NYC, non-DC, non-SV) parts of the country pay. In Atlanta, for instance, my 3bed/2bath 1500 ft^2 house costs $800/month, food for 2 costs ~$350/month (so food for 3 would cost ~$550), vehicle maintenance costs ~$300, and utilities cost ~$300 for a total "necessary" spending of ~$1950/month and ~$4300 left over. (All those spending estimates are rounded up, by the way.)
Oh, by the way: median household income in the US is $53K, which is not anywhere close to $90k. With an estimate that far off, you might be among the "rich who do not understand what it is like to be poor." ; ) (FYI, a $53K-earning household pays ~$6.5k in taxes and has ~$2k/month left over using my budget numbers.)
I'm not going to complain about your proposed solutions, though!
Property only exists by virtue of the law which exists thanks to taxation
Property exists by virtue of a person claiming and controlling it by fighting off those who would take it away. All the law does is make it so the owner doesn't have to physically defend it all the time.
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OpenGL. Just like WiiU, Android, iOS, and every other platform that isn't Microsoft.
It's not that ambiguous; if the headline really meant what you think it meant it would have said "Valve's sponsors..." instead.
No you don't, because your insurance deductible is higher than the cost of the phone. That $500 loss is real and uncompensated.
There's a better way.
I was reading a finance forum earlier today, and came across a post from a guy talking about his frugal habits, which included still using Windows 98. That's not frugal, that's insane!
(On the bright side, he also still uses dial-up, so at least the rate at which his zombied PC can spew shit is somewhat limited...)
You (or perhaps Oxford) should have put quotation marks around the invalid words.
You should keep it; 2005 is very nearly the best year for TDIs. (If somebody gave me a brand-new TDI, I'd sell it and buy something similar to a 2005.)
Whoever programmed such a 3-panel message is irresponsible. There is long-established research (mostly by a researcher at Texas A&M named Conrad Dudek) that gives guidelines for how to design CMS messages, and one of the most basic guidelines is "motorists don't have time to read 3 screens worth of information."
(Some of that research is pretty interesting, especially if you're working in a traffic management center, it isn't rush hour, and you have nothing better to do.)
By the way, fixed CMSs managed by people for whom it is their full-time job are much more likely to have reasonable messages than the portable CMSs used in construction zones. I look forward to the day when they finally install some damn modems in the things so they can be managed from the TMC...
Quit spreading lies and FUD. First of all, most diesels, including many new "clean diesels" (e.g. the VW Golf/Jetta/Beetle) do not use diesel exhaust fluid (DEF)*. Second, there's nothing inherent to diesels that make them have higher repair costs than "plain old gassers" other than the turbo (and lots of new gassers these days -- like the Ford Ecoboost -- have turbos too).
The real reason why diesels have an undeserved reputation for being expensive to repair is that most of them in the US have been made by VW or Mercedes, but they're expensive to repair because they're German, not because they're diesel!
(*Even some of the "bluetec" engines do not, in fact, use DEF even though they're named after it.)
Now that's an interesting choice of words...
...And (perhaps) a disagreement over what "best" means. I say "perhaps" because, to at least some extent, both parties agree that "best" means something entirely different than what most parents would expect (i.e., "an obedient assembly-line worker with no critical thinking skills").
What we have here is a superposition of extreme pendulum states.
(Actually, no: we simply have multiple pendulums at opposite extremes. However, calling it a "superposition" is more fun!)
I don't either, but I can start mentally singing the "Alphabet Song" at the letter J, then remember the next lyric.
...And those filters screw up using biodiesel, which is ironic since burning biodiesel (at least in my experience using a 1.9L VW engine) produces less soot in the first place.
And even if the bulk material isn't toxic, the dust could still be (due to the particles' physical shape, not its chemical properties). See, for example, silicosis.
Something irrelevant to the discussion, since it doesn't have carbon in it.
Tablets these days really ought to have modern capacitive touchscreens for touch UI work plus Wacom-style digitizers for handwriting and drawing.
Which one are you talking about? Google, Facebook, Amazon, Visa, Equifax/Experian/Transunion, ...?
That's exactly the same standard we're supposed to be using in non-capital cases too!
It is not valid for death sentences to cost more than life sentences. The real problem is that people aren't getting competent and thorough defenses in the initial trial. I would argue it's even more of an injustice for those receiving life sentences because, without the permanence of execution, the public sees it as less of a problem worth fixing.
You have to admit, the old hardware makes it hard for some random officer to violate the air gap by plugging in his USB-using cellphone.
To create synthetic hydrocarbon fuels, all you need is a source of hydrogen (i.e., water) and a source of carbon. The only reason people typically talk about coal in that context is that it's easy to collect carbon from, but if you've got stereotypical "too cheap to meter" nuclear energy then you could just collect CO2 instead.
That's only because for coal, the "take [more than] a few decades to clean up the resulting mess" is the result of normal operations, not sabotage!
What, you mean anything shiny plus anything that conducts heat?
(I realize the person you replied to specifically mentioned photovoltaics, but in disparaging "solar power people" in general you overstated your case.)
The real issue here is that solar is good and nuclear is good, so the "solar zealots" like the grandparent and the "nuclear zealots" like you really ought to be working together to eliminate coal, not fighting amongst yourselves!
Your numbers are wrong, starting with your after-tax income. A 3-person married-filing-jointly household grossing $90K would pay ~$8k in income tax and ~$7k in payroll tax, which works out to ~$75k (or $6,250/month) net. Even using your spending estimates, the household should have $2250 left over.
Of course, even your spending numbers are inflated compared to what people in "normal" (non-NYC, non-DC, non-SV) parts of the country pay. In Atlanta, for instance, my 3bed/2bath 1500 ft^2 house costs $800/month, food for 2 costs ~$350/month (so food for 3 would cost ~$550), vehicle maintenance costs ~$300, and utilities cost ~$300 for a total "necessary" spending of ~$1950/month and ~$4300 left over. (All those spending estimates are rounded up, by the way.)
Oh, by the way: median household income in the US is $53K, which is not anywhere close to $90k. With an estimate that far off, you might be among the "rich who do not understand what it is like to be poor." ; ) (FYI, a $53K-earning household pays ~$6.5k in taxes and has ~$2k/month left over using my budget numbers.)
I'm not going to complain about your proposed solutions, though!
Property exists by virtue of a person claiming and controlling it by fighting off those who would take it away. All the law does is make it so the owner doesn't have to physically defend it all the time.